Simulation training at Baystate Medical Center

print this page

Simulation Center Resources

Devices

The Baystate Simulation Center and the Goldberg Surgical Skills Lab house a wide variety of training devices.  These currently include:

  1. Media Environments Box Trainer
  2. Biofeedback Equipment
  3. Anastomosis Suturing Models
  4. Knot Tying and Suturing Practice Boards
  5. High fidelity human patient simulator METI® Human Patient Simulator (HPS)
  6. Medium fidelity human patient simulator Laerdal SimMan
  7. Pediatric human patient simulator METI PediaSIM
  8. METI BabySim
  9. 2 METI iStan wireless, tetherless patient simulators
  10. Airway models
  11. Mr. Hurt Head Trauma Trainer (Laerdal)
  12. Spine models
  13. Thoracentesis/paracentesis trainer
  14. Simulab TraumaMan®
  15. Nasco Central Venous Cannulation Simulator
  16. Phantom Breast biopsy model
  17. Access to up to date ultrasound machines
  18. ProMIS Simulator (hybrid)
  19. Mist VR Basic Skills Simulator
  20. Mist VR Suture Skills & Endotower Laparoscopic Trainer
  21. Surgical Simulation Platform (SEP) Laparoscopic Simulator
  22. Surgical Simulation Platform (SEP) Robotic Simulator
  23. Simbionix GI mentor endoscopy trainer
  24. FLS certification trainer

Equipment

  1. Trauma Disaster Casualty Kit for HPS
  2. Fully-stocked code carts
  3. Puritan-Bennett 7200 Mechanical ventilator
  4. Puritan-Bennett MA-1 Mechanical ventilator
  5. Ambu bags
  6. Drager Anesthesia machine with spO2 and ET CO2 monitors
  7. Medication cart with over 50 simulated medications
  8. Oxygen delivery devices
  9. Suction devices
  10. Intravenous infusion pumps
  11. Philips Biphasic defibrillator
  12. Bedside care equipment
  13. Laparoscopic and open surgical instruments
  14. Computer access
  15. METIvision audio/visual video capture, editing and archiving equipment
  16. Teleconferencing equipment
  17. Ultrasound machines
  18. Large computer data base of diagnostic studies
  19. EKG machine
  20. Functional OR scrub sink
  21. Patient moulage supplies
  22. Access to patient care/ diagnostic equipment as required