Simulation Education Centre | Sydney West AHS

Human patient simulators are conceptually similar to aircraft flight training simulators, and provide training in a realistic environment that includes the stress of an actual incident while ensuring that skills are maintained or improved without risk to patients. Simulators use computer-controlled mannequins that are programmed to respond realistically with heart and breathing sounds and displays of pulses and other vital signs on a patient monitor. There are three hundred simulators worldwide, with five in Australia and New Zealand.

Capital Insight prepared a business case for a simulation education centre at Westmead Hospital that will provide practice-based, educationally sound skills to junior medical and nursing staff in basic life support, advanced life support, and acute care training in emergency medicine, anaesthetics and intensive care.