INTEC inaugurates Medical Simulation Center for training
Santo Domingo. With an investment of more than 27 thousand dollars, the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) presented the Medical Simulations Center with equipment that will allow both medical students and other health center staff to practice with mannequins that react as human beings.
Two simulated patients, five breasts of CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), an arm for practices and a hand allow to train skills to identify physical and pathological signs, channel and intubate and practice cardiopulmonary resuscitation without any risk in people.
"The" simulated patients "will be in classes of physiology, physiopathology, semiology, cardiology, pneumology and other subjects in which there are physical signs to be known," explained Fernando Santamaría, deputy deputy of the Health Sciences Area. Students will practice to look for signs such as heart and breathing sounds, pulses, nail coloring, etc. in a controlled environment.
The two simulated patients are an adult, who acts as a man or woman, and an infant.
They can be intubated (placement of a respiratory tract inside the trachea) and train in cardiorespiratory resuscitation, giving external chest massages in the chest and applying assisted breathing. There are also artificial arms to learn how to place intravenous lines, catheters or venoclysis (put a needle in a vein).
The coordinator of the Medical Simulation Center of INTEC, the emergenciologist Pablo Smester, affirmed that teaching by simulation is an advance to improve skills without risks in humans. "The best way to learn is to repeat the procedures and sometimes it happens that in a group only one person has the opportunity to practice with a patient."
Students will practice the procedure, then receive feedback from their teachers and instructional videos to then repeat them. Another key aspect that takes into account the space is the handling of the patient and the hygiene that the doctor must have before and after interacting with him.
The Medical Simulation Center of INTEC is available to hospitals and public and private health centers for training, since it has a room and an integrated classroom that facilitates teaching without obstructing the practice.
At the inauguration of the center, along with Santamaría and Smester, the rector of INTEC, Rolando Guzmán, the academic vice-rector, Leandra Tapia, the vice-rector for Administration and Finance, Alfonso Casasnovas, as well as teachers and staff of the Health Sciences Area of the University, among them Fátima Núñez, coordinator of BioINTEC, Blanca Rodríguez, coordinator of INTEC Laboratories, César López, coordinator of the INTEC gynecology and obstetrics board and doctor of the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital and Miladys Román, coordinator of the board of gynecology and obstetrics of the Luis E. Aybar Hospital.
Also in attendance were Maritza Martínez, PROIS coordinator, Georgina Espinal, professor of Microbiology, Miriam Bobadilla, INTEC Administrator, Erick Barinas, IT director and Jeannette Haché, INTEC's Environmental Protection Program, among others.