DOCTORS, nurses and students are practising complex medical procedures on a manikin that bleeds, breathes and even blinks.
The new �25,000 medical manikin can be used to simulate any situation, whether it is a heart attack or a reaction to drugs, and can talk to indicate pain.
It is wireless which means it can be taken into wards, ambulances and the emergency department to simulate real-life situations.
"The reason this manikin is so important is that it provides a higher level of education and training," said Dr Rachel Palmer, an education and research fellow at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which manages both the City Hospital and Queen's Medical Centre.
"All members of healthcare staff can train on him, we are doing a lot of work with doctors, nurses, pharmacists and dentists at the moment."
All the manikin's functions are managed at the control centre in the Trent Simulation and Skills Centre at the QMC campus. Control room staff manage the heart and breathing rate and can make the manikin have a heart attack, restrict the airways or start it bleeding to simulate a real-life situation and the reactions to treatment. Its pupils respond to light, it can talk and also function as a male or female.
There are a series of programs already set up for the manikin, but control room staff can tweak these to add extra elements as the procedure goes on.
Dr Palmer added: "The whole idea of simulation is it gives staff experience in an environment where they can practise looking after patients. We can look at how they work together as a team. It's basically a practise run to give them experience.
"This week we have been running courses for general doctors. At the moment they are doing assessments. He might have had a heart attack or a haemorrhage and their role is to assess the patient. We add bits to the scenario to make it more complex. This means we can look at the management of the patient as well as how they work as a team."
Currently people operating on the manikin do so at the Trent Simulation and Skills centre and their work is filmed so other members of their team and research staff can watch their work.
The manikin is also used to measure how people do chest compressions and give breaths for CPR. It can be used by individual staff or teams.
The manikin was bought for around �25,000 from America by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Charity.
Malcolm Chambers, clinical trainer at the trust, said: "We plan to take the manikin to the emergency department for the trauma team.
"Because it is wireless the manikin can be put on the floor or in ambulances to simulate situations.
"We can change the heart rate, lower the blood pressure. It can be used to simulate the worst patient you would expect to come across."
It is used for training every day and will be used to train around 1,000 staff a year.
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