How to Use SimVS EMS for Your Pre-Hospital Clinical Simulations
SimVS EMS virtual simulation system is a tablet-based clinical education solution that incorporates various monitor types to create highly realistic and immersive pre-hospital simulation scenarios. The incorporation of equipment that replicates equipment from the clinical environment into the simulation allows the learners to practice realistic experiential learning opportunities. This HealthySimulation.com article will explore how SimVS EMS can increase realism in a pre-hospital setting while staying within your budget.
Simulation is a valid methodological approach for the evaluation of an emergency medical professional’s ability to perform a task in EMS. The ultimate goal is to assess a trainee’s ability to perform a skill in the field on patients before the need arises.
Healthcare simulation provides the learners the opportunity to practice the skills that include life-saving techniques in a controlled simulated environment for critical thinking and clinical reasoning development and growth.
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What is the SimVS Platform?
SimVS empowers educators to create lifelike and engaging simulations for learners using tablet-based simulation equipment. These simulations can be used with standardized patients (SPs), manikins, or full-body simulators. The flexibility of the application enables educators to choose the most suitable mode for achieving their learning goals and simulation objectives. SimVS offers a range of simulated medical equipment, inclusing patient monitors, assessment devices, IV pumps, defibrillators, transport ventilators, and more.
SimVS offers a notable advantage by utilizating tables as the primary platform for all its programs. The compact size and portability make SimVS ideal for the often constrained spaces found in most simulation programs. The SimVS EMS platform brings numerous benefits to both learners and educators. One prominent advantage of SimVS is the lifelike simulation of monitor operations across a wide variety of patient conditions, enabling students to hone their multitasking, prioritization, and pattern recognition skills, among others. Moreover, the platform boasts an extensive library of preprogrammed scenario and includes a scenario booklet featuring over 200 cardiac and respiratory waveforms.
SimVS for EMS, EMT, Paramedics and EFRs
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The SimVS EMS package has preprogrammed scenarios that cover all IOOH Paramedic portfolio and Appendix G topics. SimVS Scenario Builder allows the educator to quickly and easily create new scenarios and edit preprogrammed simulation scenarios. There are 50 lesson plans that include:
- Anaphylaxis – Pediatric
- Bradycardia
- Diabetic Emergency
- Poisoning Overdose
- Multisystem Trauma
- Pneumothorax
- Much more
A new addition to all SimVS packages is a telemetry app that will help educators teach cardiac rhythms to learners. The SimVS telemetry app will allow educators to teach and review cardiac rhythms across the curriculum. The telemetry app can be used in the classroom to teach the didactic information before application in the simulation and clinical environments. SimVS Telemetry allows instructors to project up to 6 cardiac rhythms, from an extensive library, at one time much like the telemetry screen in a hospital. Leveraging the extensive usability of tablets, the application can easily connect to projects or large screens with included connectors or casting!
The EMS Series is comprised of two packages: SimVS EMS & SimVS EMS Plus. Both include the following monitors: hospital monitor, X-Series defibrillator, LP-15 defibrillator, and telemetry. The EMS Plus package also includes a transport ventilator.
The SimVS EMS Series provides educators and learners quick adoption and integration into a program or curriculum. Included with every EMS packages includes:
- Carrying case
- Curriculum booklet
- Portable router
- Battery pack
- Adult attachment cables – SpO2, 3 Lead ECG, 12 Lead ECG, Defib pads, BP Cuff
Understanding the needs of pre-hospital educators, the EMS series includes a portable router and 12-hour battery pack. Allowing for seamless training in the classroom and on-the-go
SimVS Difference Which You Can See
SimVS has introduced an innovative tablet connectivity solution called SimVS Everconnect. After initial setup, SimVS devices effortlessly establish and re-establish connections, guaranteeing a smooth and frustration-free simulation experience. Alongside its advanced technology, SimVS EMS offers complimentary training and support with every purchase. Furthermore, SimVS EMS operates on a one-time pricing model, eliminating annual fees and hidden costs.
Customize Simulation on a Budget with SimVS
Clinical simulation instructors can utilize SimVS preprogrammed scenarios or full on-the-fly control capability to facilitate healthcare professional learners’ practice role and psychomotor skills with clinical judgment development. SimVS is a multi-purpose training tool that can be used beyond creating patient scenarios. SimVS includes a robust set of devices that allow instructors to create customized displays and cases quickly and easily. Ideal for interactive classroom use or online case delivery.
SimVS is ideal for programs that need to increase simulation capacity on a budget. The value of SimVS allows a simulation program to turn any manikin into a high-fidelity simulator. With its multi-student capabilities, a single instructor can effectively manage up to six patients concurrently. When acquiring SimVS, simulation programs can purchase only the specific functionalities necessary for learners to attain their designated objectives, aligning with scenario outcomes. SimVS can replace a hospital monitor, mechanical ventilator, defibrillator, or fetal monitor for simulation at a fraction of the cost of refurbished equipment. SimVS displays all physiology and controls found on modern monitors, which allows participants to quickly see the effects of their actions on the display of the patient. This promotes critical thinking and clinical judgment.
SimVS offers multiple ways to connect in any training environment. From the pre-hospital to the skills laboratory and the simulation lab environments, SimVS uses the latest mobile platforms to ensure healthcare participants and simulation faculty stay connected at the most critical times to increase the realism of the scenario.
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More About the SimVS Company
Today, SimVS is one of the world’s most successful providers of simulated medical device monitors, boasting thousands of unit installations on devices across the globe. The founders of SimVS recognized that existing healthcare simulation equipment was both expensive and cumbersome, so an effort was made to create more accessible alternatives that would enhance the clinical training experience. SimVS accomplished this by creating a product line of simulated patient virtual monitors, defibrillators, vital sign devices, call bells, ventilators, and more.
Teresa Gore, PhD, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, CHSE-A, FSSH, FAAN – Dr. Gore has experience in educating future nurses in the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Dr. Gore has a PhD in Adult Education, a DNP as a family nurse practitioner, and a certificate in Simulation Education. Dr. Gore is an innovative, compassionate educator and an expert in the field of healthcare simulation. In 2007l Teresa started her journey in healthcare simulation. She is involved in INACSL and SSH. She is a Past-President of INACSL and is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator Advanced (CHSE-A). In 2018, she was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). In 2021, she was inducted as a Fellow in the Society of Simulation in Healthcare Academy (FSSH) and selected as a Visionary Leader University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Alumni. During her career, Dr. Gore has led in the development and integration of simulation into all undergraduate clinical courses and started an OSCE program for APRN students. Her research interests and scholarly work focus on simulation, online course development and faculty development. She has numerous invited presentations nationally and internationally on simulation topics.
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