NSW Health Minister Ryan Park and Member for Bega Michael Holland officially open a simulation centre at South East Regional Hospital Bega, September 7, 2023
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00:00 This is a laryngoscope, and when people become particularly unwell or when we give a patient
00:15 an anaesthetic, one of the kind of stressful things when you're learning that you have
00:19 to do in that situation is to get a breathing tube down so that you can take over the breathing
00:23 and the ventilation of that patient.
00:25 So again, these mannequins are a great way to be able to practice that, to experience
00:31 it.
00:32 And this is not quite the right size for this patient, but so that you can see it all, what
00:37 happens with the laryngoscope, that goes into the mouth of the patient, all the way down
00:43 to the back of the throat.
00:49 And then what we do is get a breathing tube that I'm going to get for Michael in just
00:52 a minute, and that breathing tube passes through the vocal cords and then down into the lung
00:58 pipe, into the trachea.
00:59 So that's I guess just one example, and the Premier last week had a look at that as well.
01:06 He was a little bit horrified.
01:07 He doesn't like the sight of that.
01:08 Yeah, nah, nah, he doesn't.
01:11 But this is one of the procedures that we can teach people to do in a way that's actually
01:16 really quite realistic.
01:17 And these mannequins, there are a whole series of things in their airway that we can change
01:22 remotely.
01:23 So we've got a control mechanism, there's a control room next door set up.
01:27 We control these mannequins wirelessly from the room next door.
01:31 So the people that are involved in running the training of the scenario are not actually
01:36 physically right nearby.
01:37 They're not far away, but they're not in your face.
01:41 And so the people that are doing the training, they're there, like they would be in the clinical
01:45 situation by themselves, and they're able to practice and learn that skill in an environment
01:53 that's actually relatively realistic and puts no patient at risk.
01:59 So yeah, there's many, many other things that we can do with these mannequins.
02:03 This one over here, it's got features like you can feel pulses in all the places that
02:09 you normally feel pulses.
02:11 You can give intravenous fluids and drugs through it.
02:14 You can catheterise it.
02:15 So it's got a bladder with fluid in it.
02:18 We can make it bleed as well.
02:20 So if we're doing trauma simulation, like you can see on the screen behind, we can make
02:24 it bleed from various parts and simulate all kinds of different trauma-based scenarios
02:30 as well.
02:31 So then what you do with the handle, you pull the handle up towards the corner of the room.
02:44 If you lever it like that, it'll break their teeth.
02:47 Yes.
02:48 So you just lift it that way.
02:49 Ah.
02:50 That's great.
02:51 You are a legend.
02:52 There's one.
02:53 Jeez, look at that.
02:54 You're alive, mate.
02:55 You're alive.
02:56 And if you can get this down, you'll be the first person that has done that.
03:03 Oh, come on.
03:04 Don't give that to me.
03:05 Let's see what's going to happen.
03:06 Do it.
03:07 Do it.
03:08 Do it.
03:09 Absolutely.
03:10 Nathan knows.
03:11 He knows I'm not going to do it.
03:12 No, you will.
03:13 You will.
03:14 You will.
03:15 We know you will.
03:16 He's a brand new mannequin.
03:17 That's the only reason they're the first person to do it.
03:18 Yeah.
03:19 Beautiful.
03:20 It's not there.
03:21 You're in trouble.
03:22 It's not there.
03:23 It's not there.
03:24 You're in trouble.
03:26 It's not there.
03:35 It's not there.
03:36 It's not there.
03:36 It's not there.
03:43 It's not there.