First-Aid and Medical Simulation: New Frontiers

摘要

A wide variety of technologies and products have evolved, over decades, to assist medical personnel or even laypersons who want or need first aid training. Some of the types of problems that doctors, nurses, and other medical staff need to deal with are not daily occurrences, so the requisite knowledge base needs to be built up with training rather than experience. There are also complex medical situations that will require a variety of mental skills, physical skills, and specialty equipment to diagnose or treat, and thus need extensive training that is made easier with technology and simulation. Finally, you do not want people who are just starting out to learn by working on living patients if there is an alternative by which trainees can learn from mistakes without endangering life or causing unnecessary suffering.