The EmergiMed CD includes all six of our training programs:
Cardiac Arrest!, Code Team!, Trauma One!, Chest Pain Simulator, Blood Gases,
and MicroEKG. There's even a demo of PAIGE that allows you to print 300 instruction
sheets. The CD can be run directly from your CD drive (saving hard drive space),
or installed on your hard drive for more convenient access.
The retail price is $289.95, but you're price with our 10% discount is only
$260.95 for all six educational programs.
Cardiac Arrest! -- A simulator like no other!
Sharpening skills at Advanced Cardiac Life
Support (ACLS) was never so easy - and certainly never so much fun. Cardiac
Arrest! casts you in the role of emergency physician. The patient's history
is presented, and the resuscitation efforts begin. You read the ECG on the computer
screen, interpret the vital signs and laboratory data, and give treatment orders.
ACLS becomes a challenging computer adventure game.
There are 45 patient data files on the disk -
but each patient behaves differently every time resuscitation is attempted.
It's a real simulator, not a case presentation. There are easy patients, hard
patients, and pediatric patients.
As you resuscitate the patient, you type your
"orders" in plain English, ordering virtually anything you want any way
you want. Cardiac Arrest! is incredibly easy to use. The manual provides all
the medical information required. And there's an on-screen textbook, on-line
protocol charts and drug information, treatment hints, and a watchful head nurse
who can tell you if you're going astray.
No
"choose A, B, C" type learning here. The realism gets your adrenaline going.
And the simulator goes beyond standard ACLS. It poses difficult therapeutic
priorities, presenting patients with problems beyond hearts attacks - such as
hypocalcemia, hypothermia, and hyperkalemia. Whether you're a paramedic, nurse,
physician, or teaching institution, Cardiac Arrest! can meet your education
needs. No wonder Cardiac Arrest! is the most-used ACLS simulator in the
world!
CardioQuiz
covers ACLS topics in ten self-teaching quizzes. This is excellent preparation
for the written ACLS certification test. The program covers airway management,
IV techniques, cardiac drugs, case management priorities, Basic Life Support
reveiw, and more.
The EKG Teaching program teaches rhythm
strip interpretation with tutorials and quizzes. The program covers normal and
abnormal ECG parts and rhythms, with pathology pattern and recognition such
as hypercalcemia, hyperkalemia, and hypothermia.
ACLS Protocols teaches you to apply the
American Heart Association's arrhythmia treatment algorithms to clinical situations.
The program allows you to select from multiple scenerios, then manage the patient
by interpreting the on-screen data and ECGs while entering treatment orders.
The program is useful for all who must pass the "megacode" portion of ACLS certification.
Among the protocols practiced are asystole, brachychardia with and without pulse,
V-tach with and without pulse, V-fib, PAT, endotracheal drugs, and acidosis
therapy.
Chest Pain Simulator
-- Training for the "Chest Pain ER"
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.
The
Chest Pain Simulator screen shows the patient's general appearance and color
(changes with treatment). Interventions such as IV, monitor, and BP monitoring
are seen in the window. The menu bar allows you to ask the patient questions,
examine him, and order tests or interventions. Meantime,
the computer is out to get you. It's looking for weaknesses in your approach
-- one oversight, and the computer will nail you. When you've mastered this
program, you'll have a rigorous, conservative, solid approach to multiple-trauma.
It's the best way to learn solid trauma management. It's fun, too.
Easy icons provide quick access to often-used
interventions (center of screen). The patient chart can be opened by clicking
on the tabs. The chart automatically records your interventions, and stores
lab, EKG, x-ray reports, etc. Vital signs are recorded in a scrolling window
for easy access. Other windows show ECG monitor, pulse oximeter, etc.
There are many teaching features in the Chest
Pain Simulator! 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 within
the program! Other nice features include an on-line patient chart.
Any error in treatment priorities is pointed out
to the user as it occurs. For extra adrenaline, you can change the program mode
from KIND to CRUEL -- instead of gentle feedback, the patient meets an untimely
demise.
Chest Pain Simulator is great value for physicians
who manage chest pain. With the multiple-student option, hospitals can use this
program to teach nurses and physicians state-of-the-art management of chest
pain.
Trauma One! -- A rigorous,
demanding trauma simulator!
Never has mastering multiple-trauma patient
treatment skills been so easy. Trauma One! solidifies your approach to the trauma
victim. It teaches therapeutic priorities, threshhold for action, and completeness
of workup. The deluxe version we're offering includes two "extra patient" disks
already installed. It normally sells for $139.95!
Trauma One! presents a trauma victim and you begin
management. Undertake stabilization measures, obtain historical and physical exam
information, order tests, and perform procedures on your patient. See the interventions
in the "trauma room" on your computer screen.
This is how Trauma One! thinks:
OK, this guy wants to spend ten minutes trying
to find a collapsed vein to start an IV, but he hasn't checked the breathing
yet. How does he know this patient doesn't have a pneumothorax? Oh, goody. I
can make this patient crash while he's busy!
MicroEKG will surprise you. It's
a very complete ECG interpretation trainer, and is even a great review for physicians
that see ECGs every day.
Blood Gases -- a very
helpful teaching program
Does the thought of "acid-base balance" make
your skin crawl? Do "A-a gradients" terrorize you? You need Mad Scientist Software's
Blood Gases program. This terrific program teaches some of the most difficult,
yet most important material in medicine.
There's a normal values drill for those just learning.
For experts: an A-a gradient tutorial, calculation drill, and interpretation quiz.
You'll learn acid-base balance in a tutorial and interpretation quiz. There's
also a teaching tutorial and calculation drill for acidosis correction -- very
important now that "routine" bicarb is no longer given.
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Learning starts with tutorials, such as arterial-alveolar gradient interpretation, acid-base balance, or bicarbonate therapy for metabolic acidosis. |
| During any of Blood Gases' training drills, you can refer to the on-line manual for additional learning. | 
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Technical Information: The EmergiMed CD runs on Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. It requires CD ROM drive, VGA graphics (Chest Pain Simulator and Trauma One! require sVGA or better), 4 meg RAM, hard drive, and mouse.