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Show JL Friday, Augwt 13rl997 ii Stan" The (Simulated) Mon, is Med Schools Newest Educational Tool Sun, the $178,000 man, is the most popular new face at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Although he just got into town, he's already booked for 200 dates over the next 12 months. The human patient simulator (HPS) belongs to the Department of Anesthesiology, but students and professionals from other disciplines also will use Stan. The computer-drive- n mannequin is being incorporated into the U's new medical school curriculum, which will begin this fall. The simulator will provide training in physical diagnosis, pharmacology and physiology medical students. for second-yea- r The 70 students who do anesthesiology rotations annually will complete 4 hours of work on the simulator during those periods. Anesthesiology residents were the 3-- first to use the simulator. Medical students, respiratory' therapy ints structors, physician assistant and flight nurses also are scheduled for training with Stan. Graduate students in nursing, particularly nurse practitioners, will receive simulator training, and community anesthesiologists also have expressed an interest in ses- ease or from administered drugs. One person can operate the man- - atu-den- The simulator is an important educational resource for health professions students of all disciplines as well as for physicians and others involved in acute care situations like intensive care medicine, emergency medicine and anesthesiolsions, said Dwayne R. ogy," Westenskow said. Westenskow, Ph.D., professor and "Skills which can be taught with director of bioengineering in the the simulator have quite a range," anesthesiology department, and dithe U professor said. "Respiratory rector of the HPS project. therapists can learn how to set up Stan, who can simulate the physpatients on ventilators, flight iology of a woman, too, has a nurses can concentrate on emerpulse and heart and breath sounds gency intubation, advanced cardiac and is mobile enough that he can be life support and crisis management, dressed and placed in a chair. The and health practitioners can learn mannequin is connected to physio- how to better treat asthma by evallogic monitors that can simulate uating medications for their effect medical crises resulting from dis in real time." This May Floor You: Decks Are Now Carefree! According to Westenskow, the U plans to continually update the simulator, adding eyes as well as limbs that move. The U simulator project group hopes to develop a Center for Medical Simulation, in an amphitheater setting, which will include other simulation techniques. Also helping coordinate the project at the U are T. 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