YSP Summer Focus Participants Visit the Howard & Joyce Wood Similation Center

Led by Julie Woodhouse, the Assistant Director of the Howard & Joyce Wood Simulation Center  and Dr. Wayland Cheng, Anesthesiology resident,  YSP Summer Focus participants toured the Howard & Joyce Wood Simulation Center (http://www.simulation.wustl.edu/) at the Washington University Medical School.  The simulation center is equipped with full-scale electromechanical mannequins used to train medical students, residents in multiple disciplines as well as attending physicians and nurses.  The computerized mannequins exhibit many of the features of a human being including blinking, breathing, heart sounds, breath sounds and pulses.  Washington University Medical School students and residents learn skills in a low stress, high-fidelity environment that is safe for patients.  During the simulation tour, YSP Summer Focus participants were able to ventilate the mannequin, diagnose an asthma attack and heart attack, and were able to resuscitate a simulated patient in cardiac arrest.