Monday, April 17, 2006

NOELLE™: The Pregnant Robot

Filed under: Ob/Gyn

Take a deep breath. The Associated Press is announcing the arrival of NOELLE&trade, a birthing simulator conceived by Florida-based Gaumard Scientific Company. This medical simulator system, the product of long and difficult labor, is a "pregnant robot used in increasing numbers of medical schools and hospital maternity wards." Supplied with four umbilical cords, four dilating cervices, two umbilical clamps and three vulva for postpartum suturing (no less!), the device's S560 model really delivers. Features include:

- Interactive female with one birthing baby and one interactive neonate

- Interactive neonate changes color with positive pressure ventilation (PPV)

- Intubatable airway with chest rise

- IV arm for medications and fluid transfer

- Multiple maternal, fetal, and neonatal heart sounds

- Practice Leopold maneuvers

- Virtual Instruments® is used to monitor and treat the mother include heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP), pulse oxygenation, and ECG

- Practice C-section and forceps delivery

- Three vulva for postpartum suturing

- Full body newborn for NRP protocols

- Intubate, perform CPR

- With proper ventilation cyanosis can improve to a healthy color
Provide medications through the umbilicus, arm, or tibia
Construct NRP codes using simple point and click menus

Check out Gaumard Scientific Company's website for a full line of simulators...

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