SOFTWARE INFORMATION
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METIVision Software Upgrade
METI is pleased to announce further enhancements to METIVision through a software upgrade (Version 1.0.15).
Enhancements include:
• Support for mobile systems
• Synchronization of recorded libraries from mobile systems
• Stored audio source selections with the recording view layouts
• Saved camera settings
• Improved integration with the iStan simulator
• Refined Central Server system integration
• Improved online system updating notifications
• Improved integration with the 233D camera and video servers
• Upgraded support of audio capture
• Simplified networking port configuration
• Updated trend chart zooming
• Updated importing/exporting
• Upgraded recorded time formatting
• Improved the administrator account reset
• Updated annotations feature with Safari users
• General system and security updates
DOWNLOAD UPDATE v1_0_15.mvu
Install Instructions
Previous Software Upgrades
DOWNLOAD UPDATE v1_0_14.mvu
Install Instructions
DOWNLOAD UPDATE v1_0_12.gpg
Install Instructions
Utilities Upgrades
HPS Utilities Update
This update is intended for use in conjunction with a METI Customer Support Technician. It includes MIDS Utility, Rack Edit, Monitor Calibration and other utilities.
Simulation Forms
SimForms.zip
Extraneous documents used by instructors
Software Text Formatting Upgrades
The following downloads provide an upgrade to text formatting for the HPS, ECS, PediaSIM, BabySIM and MSTC software applications.
HPS_ECS_PediaSIM Plugin Installer.dmg
Baby Plugins Installer.dmg
MSTC Plugins Installer.dmg
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
Abstract
The use of simulation is gaining momentum in nurse education across the UK. The Nursing and Midwifery Council is currently investigating the use of simulation in pre-registration nursing. This article gives a brief history of simulation, discusses competence issues and why simulation is best placed to teach nurses in today’s health service. An innovative approach to implementing simulation into the nursing curriculum is introduced.
Abstract
Baccalaureate nursing educators have incorporated nursing research content into the curriculum for many years. Our university also proposes that students have a faculty-mentored learning experience at least once during their undergraduate education. Student research, guided by a faculty mentor; provides an excellent opportunity for students to learn about and participate in nursing research. The authors describe a unique experience of nursing students working as research assistants in a faculty research project using a human patient simulator.
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Patient Simulators
These User Guides have been designed for quick access to information on how to use and maintain your system. The Clinical Features section describes many of the physiological conditions and user interventions possible with the system. The Equipment Overview provides a detailed inventory of your system’s components and how these components are interrelated. The Software Basics section describes how to access and use your METI HPS6 software as well as how to operate in a Macintosh™ environment. The Tabs section contains detailed content on each of the specific patient parameters. Using the System includes information on how the mannequin and software components work and the functionality that each supports. Instructions on various clinical interventions are explained in this section. This section also contains information on the Waveform Display Monitor and the Remote Control. The Care/Maintenance section provides guidelines on how to maintain your system to the highest standards and details the warranty information. The Index organizes the User Guide into key words with page references to help you find what you need.
Müse is the new web-based user interface for METI simulators.
The Müse Programming Guidelines document is a tool that helps users obtain desired vital signs while creating scenarios.
The Müse Quick Start Chart shows users how to access the Müse and TouchPro software once their simulator is set up.
Müse Programming Guidelines for METIman 
Müse Quick Start Chart
eDose provides all the understanding and skill development you need to safely and accurately perform medication dosage in clinical practice.
The eDose medication dosage calculation skills program assists users to:
* Understand the crucial clinical features of dosage and rate problems
* Recall and develop the computation skills required to accurately calculate dosages and IV infusion rates
* Practice at their own pace while continually assessing and evaluating their learning and understanding
eDose Admin User Guide
eDose Learners User Guide
This User Guide has been designed to quick access to information on how to use and maintain your METI Pelvic ExamSIM. The Equipment Overview reviews all the components of the ExamSIM system and how these components are interrelated. The Set Up/Breakdown section provides instructions on the assembly of the mannequin, internal anatomy and computer component. The Quick Start section provides a broad overview on how to operate the system. Using the System section provides pertinent terminology for using the system and various usage instructions.
The Use for Learning section includes useful implementation suggestions and content that encourages users develop learning modules that meet individual educational goals. The Care/Maintenance section contains guidelines to maintain your ExamSIM to the highest standards. Included is a set of four Pelvic ExamSIM Learning Cards, designed to help you establish your own case studies.
Pelvic ExamSIM User Guide
The Pharmacology Editor
This User Guide provides detailed instructions on using the Pharmacology Editor to customize the drug responses provided with the HPS system. Drugs can be added or modified, and their pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic settings adjusted to create user-defined physiological effects. The pharmacokinetic/ pharmacodynamic model that underlies the pharmacology module of the HPS software is summarized in the user guide.
Pharmacology Editor
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SurgicalSIM™
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The METI SurgicalSIM VR, TURP, and LTS, offer the surgical community a full-spectrum and continual learning system that allows the novice, the advanced resident and even the practicing surgeon the ability to develop and test their technical, cognitive, and medical decision-making skills in a safe environment.
The SurgicalSIM product line provides two specific learning modes as well as a third mode for the administrator. This flexibility allows the program director to create learning modules that best support the learner, to objectively measure and assess an individual learner’s progress, and to ensure each competency is met and mastered.
SurgicalSIM VR User Guide
SurgicalSIM TURP User Guide
SurgicalSIM LTS User Guide
METIVision a fully integrated, digital audio-visual management system that is data-synchronized in real-time for use with METI simulators. METIVision is the only solution available with the capability not only to capture and store simulation data, but to broadcast and review any medical simulation exercise using METI simulators. Physiologic datalogs, event logs, pharmacology logs and patient monitoring data – METIVision offers the capability to provide a complete record of your simulation exercise for debriefing, assessment and evaluation.
METIVision offers a complete audio/video management system including:
1. Ability to visualize and control the system from a central location.
2. Support for real-time (30 fps) video and audio streams.
3. Record and replay the entire simulation for facilitated debriefing and after-action review.
4. Broadcast simulation to internal and external locations.
5. Place-shift and time-shift the simulation recording.
6. Integration and synchronization of simulation recording with patient simulation logs and patient monitor to produce a complete objective record and establish "ground truth" for debriefing, assessment, and evaluation.
7. Patient-centric recording to follow patient through treatment over multiple locations in support of METI LiVE.
8. Room-centric recording to follow action in a specific location.
9. Observe and switch between multiple camera views (real-time, time-shifted) with zoom in/out capability.
10. Support to multiple streams (per-node/level of care location in either a METI LiVE or a CPTS system).
METIVision User Guide
Addendum to METIVision User Guide
METIVision Demo VIDEO
TDCK™: Trauma/Disaster Casualty Kit™
This User Guide was designed for quick access to information on how to use and maintain your TDCK. The Equipment Overview section reviews all the components of the system and how these components are interrelated. Use the checklist provided in this section to take a careful inventory of the components received. The Set Up section provides pictures to help understand the proper procedures for getting your TDCK ready. There are also instructions for mixing and preparing the simulated fluids. The System Usage section covers moulage tips and specific software instructions for using your TDCK. The Clean Up/Breakdown section provides specific directions on how to care for and maintain your TDCK after each use and how to disassemble for storage.
TDCK User Guide
Waveform Display Monitor
This User Guide provides detailed information regarding parameters of the Waveform Display Monitor. Instructions walk the user through accessing and modifying the waveform display. It also contains instructions on how to customize and save a waveform display. Waveform Display User Guide |
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The vision of LiVE is to enhance patient safety by simulating
the health care system, providing the opportunity to practice,
prepare and analyze every aspect of the chain of care. Realization
of the LiVE vision will bridge medical simulation
from health care education to community-based health care
practice.
A qualitative and quantitative study analyzing computer generated simulator
data and written clinical assessments collected from medical students who
performed physical examinations on three clinically different pelvic
simulators. This study demonstrates a novel method of analyzing raw
numerical data generated from a newly developed patient simulator; deriving
performance indicators from computer generated simulator data; and assessing
validity of those indicators by comparing them with written
assessment scores. Results show the new assessment measures provide an
objective, reliable, and valid method of assessing students’ physical
examination techniques on the pelvic exam simulator.
METI recognizes that in order for nursing education
to transform its approach to student learning, we must provide educators
with the tools necessary to make the transition
to patient simulation, as a pedagogical approach, easier.
The Program for Nursing Curriculum Integration (PNCI)
is METI’s answer to assist faculty with this transition and
make more efficient use of their time as they embark on the
use of patient simulation to facilitate learning and to assess
competency. One of the primary benefits of the PNCI is that
it is focused on nursing educational concepts and competencies,
therefore no adjustments to the curriculum are required
because it is already based on the same foundation. Thus, minimizing
the impact on existing curriculum decreases faculty
resistance to including patient simulation because it requires
minimal incremental work on their part.
Surgical Simulators offer hands-on simulations for minimally
invasive and laparoscopic surgery (e.g., METI SurgicalSIM™).
This platform offers a continual learning system that allows the
novice, the advanced learner, and even the practicing surgeon the
ability to develop and test their technical, cognitive and medical
decision-making skills in a safe environment. Moreover, proficiency
can be measured for aspects such as trocar placement,
respect for tissue, suturing and teamwork skills. This platform is
being expanded to cover open and robotic surgical skills, as well
as, extended into other surgical specialties, such as Urology and
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