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(DOS title "Time is Myocardium")
Opportunity. Danger. The workup of chest pain presents both. With thrombolytic drugs, the physician can help the MI patient as never before. Yet never has the danger been greater: Lawsuits for improper management of chest pain are the biggest-dollar loss to internists and emergency physicians.
The Chest
Pain Simulator addresses both the opportunity and the danger.
"This program is an excellent training environment for physicians interested in learning state-of-the-art thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction." Medical Software Reviews
You manage the Chest Pain Simulator patients like real ones: stabilize, take a full history, perform a physical exam, order and interpret tests, and give treatment orders. There are drop-down menus for easy history-taking, examination, testing, and intervention. The computer watches your workup, looking for weaknesses and pointing them out. The program also rates your time- and cost-efficiency.
The program features a single-student or multiple-student mode that is set up at program installation. Tutorials help you get "up to speed" on thrombolytic therapy and chest pain workup. And the manual contains some of the most practical information you've ever read. It's even available in the program. Other nice features include an on-line patient chart.
Chest Pain Simulator was written by Bruce Argyle, MD
The Chest Pain Simulator available to you for a price of $89.95.
Hospitals and teaching institutions may wish to purchase a Site License. This allows you to install Chest Pain Simulator on all your computers on-site. It comes with four copies of the program. The cost of the license is $498 (one-time fee). When the program is upgraded in the future, you simply buy as many (or as few) upgrade copies as you desire -- at the same low upgrade price we offer to all our customers.
Chest Pain Simulator runs on Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. It requires sVGA (or better) graphics, 8 meg RAM, hard drive, and mouse. (A DOS version with reduced options and simpler graphics is available. It's title is Time is Myocardium.) A Windows demo is available. You can click here to download a self-extracting archive from this site.