From Oakville Trafalgar Hospital to the Oakville Relief Funders:
I just wanted to follow up with you with regards your donation. We received the mannequin a few weeks ago and have had several training sessions. With this mannequin we can manipulate the airway to provide varying levels of difficulty ranging from very easy to nearly impossible. It has allowed us to train both the new staff and the very experienced staff. The mannequin is placed in a dedicated room within the ER allowing us to practice intubating at any time. We also organize several training sessions in small groups where we run through multiple simulated scenarios with physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists. We use software to manipulate the monitors allowing us to simulate stressful situations forcing a physician to complete a difficult intubation/resuscitation with a near critical oxygen level. By repeatedly doing these training situations in small groups we have improved our ability to handle difficult real-life resuscitations which we continue to encounter in the ER. We expect to see an increase number of these cases in the coming weeks with the staged re-opening of business.
I just wanted to follow up with you with regards your donation. We received the mannequin a few weeks ago and have had several training sessions. With this mannequin we can manipulate the airway to provide varying levels of difficulty ranging from very easy to nearly impossible. It has allowed us to train both the new staff and the very experienced staff. The mannequin is placed in a dedicated room within the ER allowing us to practice intubating at any time. We also organize several training sessions in small groups where we run through multiple simulated scenarios with physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists. We use software to manipulate the monitors allowing us to simulate stressful situations forcing a physician to complete a difficult intubation/resuscitation with a near critical oxygen level. By repeatedly doing these training situations in small groups we have improved our ability to handle difficult real-life resuscitations which we continue to encounter in the ER. We expect to see an increase number of these cases in the coming weeks with the staged re-opening of business.
