Teaching students to give birth by robot robot pregnancy

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Noelle was born in Afghanistan, California and dozens of places between the two places. She is a lifelike, lifelike robot that is being used more and more in medical schools and hospital departments.

This true-sized, yellow-and-white serpent is growing in demand as medical science is rapidly abandoning centuries-old teaching methods that use patients or guinea pigs to High tech simulation method. The simple reason is: it would be better to commit a crime on a $ 20,000 robot rather than a living patient.

The Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Sciences, estimates that 98,000 patients die every year due to medical errors that can be prevented.

" We are trying to get rid of some of the mistakes, " said Dr. Paul Preston, a Kaiser Permanente screenwriter and architect of the hospital's four-year nursing care program. There Noelle starred.

Noelle, a product of Miami-based Gaumard, is used in almost all of Kaiser's 30 hospitals around the world and other hospitals are waiting for their turn.

So far, there have been many other companies that have created real-life bowdles in medical training for emergencies, but Noelle seems to be the only high-tech female model to date.

The Noelle prototypes range in price from $ 3,200 (basic type) to the $ 20,000-type computerized one, for the best picture of a delivery. "She" can be programmed for a variety of applications, and types of cervical dilated. Noelle can labor for hours and give birth to a baby or sudden birth in just a few minutes.

"Baby" is a plastic doll that can change color, from healthy pink to dark blue due to lack of oxygen. It will illuminate the vital signs when attached to the observer. The computerized bowel can also emit a pulse rate that is real and can urinate or breathe.

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