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\u201cWe have clinicians come in and practice cases as teams that are not commonly seen in the hospital, preparing them for situations that could arise,\u201d says Phillip Wortham, simulation program manager for operations and technology at Intermountain, who oversees simulation at the health system\u2019s 22 hospitals. \u201cWe simulate just about anything you can imagine.\u201d

The Utah-based health system has used simulation for more than a decade and runs 11 training spaces that replicate real-world experiences. However, Intermountain has ramped up its capabilities in recent years for training medical professionals for complex clinical situations in a low-risk simulated learning environment.

The largest facility\u2014located at LDS Hospital in the heart of Salt Lake City\u2014opened nearly three years ago, encompasses 10,000 square feet, and provides training every year to thousands of hospital, homecare and clinical professionals. Accredited through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, Intermountain\u2019s center at LDS includes a fully operational operating room, intensive care unit room, acute care rooms, home health apartment, as well as a simulated labor delivery room.

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The simulation center leverages myriad clinical systems as part of the training, such as an electronic health record, pumps, ventilators and telemedicine. In addition, robotic manikins\u2014including one designed to deliver a baby\u2014are used to simulate specific health conditions and to enable clinicians to provide their \u201cpatients\u201d with different treatments.

\u201cThe manikins are basically robots that function like a patient normally would,\u201d observes Wortham. \u201cSome of the manikins we have are high fidelity, which means they have pulses, can breathe, have heart sounds, lung sounds, bowel sounds\u2014they can talk, bleed, and other fluids can be run through them. This is all done remotely from the center\u2019s control room.\u201d

According to Wortham, the center even simulates odors in order to make the training scenarios as realistic as possible.

He notes that with some complex surgical training cases, the center utilizes 3D printing of scanned images of patient anatomy to help surgeons practice on these visualizations prior to doing the actual procedure.

\u201cThe home health apartment in the center is also pretty cool because we\u2019re utilizing it to train patients,\u201d adds Wortham. \u201cWe have actual patients with heart failure who come in and learn how to check their blood pressure, weigh themselves, track what they\u2019re eating, and manage their conditions. With that simulation alone, we\u2019re seeing great outcomes in the sense of readmission rates for heart failure patients.\u201d

Each quarter, Intermountain offers a three-day simulation facilitator course to teach clinicians how to implement simulation training with their respective teams. The latest class included attendees from Ecuador. This year\u2019s course included a simulation entirely in Spanish so the Ecuadorian trainees could get simulation experience in their native language.","saveContent":"Intermountain Healthcare is operating a simulation technology center that is training clinicians from around the United States and other countries, using simulated patient care scenarios designed to increase patient safety and improve clinical outcomes.

\u201cWe have clinicians come in and practice cases as teams that are not commonly seen in the hospital, preparing them for situations that could arise,\u201d says Phillip Wortham, simulation program manager for operations and technology at Intermountain, who oversees simulation at the health system\u2019s 22 hospitals. \u201cWe simulate just about anything you can imagine.\u201d

The Utah-based health system has used simulation for more than a decade and runs 11 training spaces that replicate real-world experiences. However, Intermountain has ramped up its capabilities in recent years for training medical professionals for complex clinical situations in a low-risk simulated learning environment.

The largest facility\u2014located at LDS Hospital in the heart of Salt Lake City\u2014opened nearly three years ago, encompasses 10,000 square feet, and provides training every year to thousands of hospital, homecare and clinical professionals. Accredited through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, Intermountain\u2019s center at LDS includes a fully operational operating room, intensive care unit room, acute care rooms, home health apartment, as well as a simulated labor delivery room.

Also See<\/b>: Doctors learn to better triage trauma patients by playing video game<\/a>

The simulation center leverages myriad clinical systems as part of the training, such as an electronic health record, pumps, ventilators and telemedicine. In addition, robotic manikins\u2014including one designed to deliver a baby\u2014are used to simulate specific health conditions and to enable clinicians to provide their \u201cpatients\u201d with different treatments.

\u201cThe manikins are basically robots that function like a patient normally would,\u201d observes Wortham. \u201cSome of the manikins we have are high fidelity, which means they have pulses, can breathe, have heart sounds, lung sounds, bowel sounds\u2014they can talk, bleed, and other fluids can be run through them. This is all done remotely from the center\u2019s control room.\u201d

According to Wortham, the center even simulates odors in order to make the training scenarios as realistic as possible.

He notes that with some complex surgical training cases, the center utilizes 3D printing of scanned images of patient anatomy to help surgeons practice on these visualizations prior to doing the actual procedure.

\u201cThe home health apartment in the center is also pretty cool because we\u2019re utilizing it to train patients,\u201d adds Wortham. \u201cWe have actual patients with heart failure who come in and learn how to check their blood pressure, weigh themselves, track what they\u2019re eating, and manage their conditions. With that simulation alone, we\u2019re seeing great outcomes in the sense of readmission rates for heart failure patients.\u201d

Each quarter, Intermountain offers a three-day simulation facilitator course to teach clinicians how to implement simulation training with their respective teams. The latest class included attendees from Ecuador. This year\u2019s course included a simulation entirely in Spanish so the Ecuadorian trainees could get simulation experience in their native language.","order":0,"get_parent":{},"attributes":[],"attributesType":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"dynamicContent":""}]

Intermountain simulation center offers real-world training to clinicians

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