Inventors:
Steven S. Saliterman - Minneapolis MN
International Classification:
G09B 2332
Abstract:
A computerized training system allows physicians, nurses and other medical professionals to obtain substantial experience in hemodynamic monitoring without need to acquire all that experience with live, critically ill patients. The system simulates the entire process of hemodynamic monitoring, including the physical process of introducing the catheter through an insertion site in a manikin, feeding the catheter through the veins, the heart and into the pulmonary artery, inflating the balloon at the tip of the catheter, and interpreting the measured pressure and other information obtained.