Overview
The utilisation of paediatric healthcare simulation manikins plays a vital role in training healthcare professionals to care for infants, children, and adolescents effectively. These specialised simulators replicate the unique anatomical and physiological characteristics of paediatric patients, offering a realistic and immersive learning experience.
Paediatric simulation manikins enable healthcare providers to practice a wide range of skills and procedures specific to paediatric care, including paediatric resuscitation, airway management, medication administration, and communication with paediatric patients and their families. By engaging in simulated scenarios with these manikins, healthcare professionals can develop and refine their clinical competencies in a safe and controlled environment, without risking harm to real patients.
Furthermore, paediatric simulation manikins facilitate interdisciplinary training and collaboration among healthcare teams. Professionals from various specialties, including pediatricians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and emergency responders, can come together to participate in simulated pediatric scenarios, enhancing teamwork, communication, and coordination of care.
Overall, the use of paediatric healthcare simulation manikins enhances the quality of paediatric education and training, ultimately improving the delivery of care to paediatric patients and contributing to better patient outcomes.
The below specs are taken from the company website to ensure accuracy
Lifecast Child
The Lifecast Child Manikin represents an 8 year old child (132cm, 24Kg) and offers healthcare professionals a highly realistic training experience in caring for children. Developed by Lifecast Body Simulation, this simulator accurately replicates the physical characteristics of a child, providing learners with an immersive and lifelike training environment.
One of the key features of the Lifecast Child Manikin is its lifelike appearance and anatomy, which closely resemble those of a real child. From facial features to body proportions, every detail is meticulously crafted to enhance the realism of the simulation experience. This level of fidelity enables learners to practice a wide range of paediatric procedures and interventions, including airway management and paediatric resuscitation, with confidence and precision.
In addition to its lifelike appearance and interactive features, the Lifecast Child Manikin is designed to be durable and easy to maintain, ensuring long-term usability and reliability. Its versatility makes it suitable for a variety of training settings, including hospitals, clinics, and educational institutions.
Overall, the Lifecast Child Manikin offers healthcare professionals an invaluable tool for paediatric education and training, empowering them to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to provide high-quality care to children in real clinical settings.
Paed HAL (S2225)
Paediatric Hal, developed by Gaumard Scientific, stands as a pinnacle of paediatric healthcare simulation technology. This advanced simulator replicates the anatomical and physiological features of a paediatric patient with remarkable realism, providing learners with an immersive and lifelike training experience capable of simulating not just conditions, but also reactions. By using a mixture of robotics and sound, Paed HAL is able to alter facial expressions, move his head and his eyes to follow you around the room or look at you, all adding to the immersive situations we wish to educate others in.
Hal’s versatility makes it an invaluable tool for training healthcare professionals across various disciplines and specialties. From neonatal care to adolescent medicine, Hal can simulate a wide range of pediatric scenarios, including routine check-ups, acute illnesses, and medical emergencies. Learners can practice essential skills such as airway management, medication administration, and pediatric resuscitation in a safe and controlled environment.
One of Hal’s most notable features is its interactive capabilities, allowing instructors to customize scenarios and adjust patient responses based on learner actions. This real-time feedback enhances the learning experience, enabling learners to refine their clinical decision-making skills and improve patient outcomes.
This simulator also has dynamic lung compliance making this one of the anaesthetist’s favourite manikins when working in simulation and to add to the functionality, it is also ’tetherless’, meaning that he does not require any extra cables to make him work with all his features. This allows for progressive horizontal simulation from point of injury/deterioration, through to the Emergency Department and beyond, without having stop the simulation to find an electrical socket.
This manikin also boasts real patient monitoring using your own equipment, if needed or comes with a virtual monitor, depending on need. You can also carry out several emergency interventions including surgical airway, needle decompression, chest tube insertion and more.
The below specs are taken from the company website to ensure accuracy
Functionality
General
- Height: 44 inches
- Tetherless and wireless; fully responsive during transport
- The internal rechargeable battery provides hours of tetherless operation2
- Smooth and supple full-body skin with seamless trunk and limb joints
- Realistic joint articulation: neck, shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee
- Palpable bony landmarks
- Forearm pronation and supination
- Supports common patient positions including Fowler’s, supine, and sitting
- Male/female patient conversion
- Tablet PC preloaded with UNI 3 included
- Includes 10 preprogrammed SLEs and facilitator’s guidebook
Neurological
- Active robotics simulate lifelike facial expressions including: » Anger » Transient pain » Ongoing pain » Amazement » Quizzical » Crying » Yawning
- Preprogrammed emotional states automatically express associated verbal and non-verbal cues without manual input » Worried » Anxious » Lethargic » Distracted
- Create custom facial expressions via UNI 3 interface
- Programmable jaw movement, bilateral or unilateral brow movement, and horizontal neck rotation
- Automatically turns head and eyes towards the approaching subject
- Stiff neck (torticollis)
- Interactive eyes: eyes can automatically follow a moving object
- Programmable blinking rate, pupil response, and bilateral and unilateral eye movement
- Independent, active pupillary light reflex
- Abnormal eye and eyelid movements: cross-eyed, nystagmus, eyelid twitching, eyelid droop
- Programmable crying/ tears release real fluid
- Wireless streaming voice: be the voice of HAL and listen to participants respond in real-time
- Real-time voice modulation effects
- Automatic jaw movement synchronized with speech
- Seizures with selectable intensity levels
- 50+ pre-recorded speech responses
Airway
- Anatomically accurate oral cavity and airway
- Supports nasotracheal/orotracheal intubation with standard instruments, including endotracheal tubes and supraglottic airway devices
- Tracheal intubation detection
- Head tilt, chin lift, jaw thrust
- Supports oesophageal intubation
- NG/OG tube placement
- Supports bag-valve-mask ventilation
- Realistic surgical trachea permits tracheostomy, cricothyrotomy, and retrograde intubation
- Programmable difficult airway: laryngospasm and tongue edema
- Selectable normal and abnormal upper airway sounds
Breathing
- Spontaneous breathing and selectable normal and abnormal respiratory patterns
- Variable respiratory rates and inspiratory/expiratory ratios
- Programmable unilateral chest rise and fall
- Automatic unilateral chest rise with right mainstem intubation
- Real CO2 exhalation: supports EtCO2 monitoring using real sensors and monitoring devices
- Selectable normal and abnormal sounds: upper right, front and back; upper left, front and back; lower right, back; and lower left, back
- Real mechanical ventilation support » AC, SIMV, CPAP, PCV, PSV, and more » Supports therapeutic levels of PEEP » Programmable variable lung compliance » Variable bronchi resistance » Programmable respiratory efforts for weaning/liberation
- Real-time ventilation feedback
- Visible chest rise during PPV ventilation
- Chest tube insertion: left midaxillary haemothorax site features palpable bony landmarks, realistic skin for cutting and suturing, tactile pleural pop, and fluid drain
- Needle decompression site features realistic tactile feedback and audible hiss
- Needle decompression and chest tube insertion detection and logging
Cardiac
- Includes comprehensive library of ECG rhythms with customizable beat variations
- Independent normal/abnormal heart sounds at aortic, pulmonic, and mitral sites
- Supports ECG monitoring using real devices • Supports ECG-derived respiration monitoring (EDR)
- Real-time CPR monitoring and feedback » Time to CPR » Compression depth/rate » Compression interruptions » Ventilation rate » Excessive ventilation » Smart CPR voice coach
- Effective chest compressions generate palpable carotid pulses
- Defibrillate, cardiovert, and pace using real devices and energy
- Anterior/posterior defibrillation sites
- Supports double sequential external defibrillation (DSED)
Circulatory
- Visible cyanosis, redness, pallor, and jaundice
- Supports capillary refill time testing above the right knee; test detection and logging
- Palpable pulses: bilateral carotid, brachial, radial, femoral, and pedal
- Blood pressure-dependent pulses
- Supports blood pressure monitoring using a real NIBP cuff and monitor
- SpO2 monitoring using real devices
Vascular Access
- Bilateral forearm IV access supports sampling and continuous infusion
- Intraosseous infusion site at right proximal tibia
- Real glucose test readings via fingerstick
Gastrointestinal
- Patent oesophagus
- Gastric distension during excessive PPV
- Bowel sounds in four quadrants
- Interchangeable male/female genitalia
- Supports urinary catheterization with fluid return
- Programmable active urinary elimination
Lifecast Baby
The Lifecast Baby Manikin (36+ weeks gestation, 38-40cm, 2.4Kg) is a simulation tool designed to provide healthcare professionals with a highly realistic training experience in neonatal care. Developed by Lifecast Body Simulation, this innovative manikin replicates the appearance, size, and weight of a newborn baby with remarkable accuracy, offering learners an immersive and lifelike simulation experience.
One of the key features of the Lifecast Baby Manikin is its lifelike skin texture, coloration, and anatomical landmarks, which closely resemble those of a real baby. This level of realism enhances the training experience and allows learners to practice essential skills such as neonatal assessment, basic life support, and umbilical catheterisation with confidence and precision.
Although lifecast manikins do not have the technology inside to replicate and show any movement or patient observations, we are able to create virtual observations to allow the learner to receive and record these as they would with a real patient
Overall, the Lifecast Baby Manikin represents a significant advancement in healthcare simulation, empowering healthcare professionals to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to provide high-quality care to newborns in real clinical settings.
KEY FEATURES
- Based on 36+ week baby
- Weight 2.2g approx.
- Ethnicity – Caucasian
- Step wise airway management with mouth, upper airway and lungs enabling bag/valve/mask, oropharyngeal airway, supraglottic airway and ET tube intubation.
- CPR compatible
- Carry bag – wipe clean
