Simulation Program Helps Schools Deal With Swine Flu
Reported by Christine Webb
Over 16,000 people are taking part in the nation’s largest simulation show at the Orange County Convention Center.
Medical technology is one of the growing and booming businesses.
Mary Pigora, the senior principle investigator for ECS, showed News 13 the brand new simulation training program to help school leaders deal with swine flu.
It’s basically a computer software program that helps teach leaders how to handle the situation.
“Right now, I mean, as we speak, there are schools closed in the state because they’ve had so many cases that they’ve had to shut down, and this is something that we really haven’t seen before — at least not in many, many years, probably while many of these officials were in their current jobs. So right now is when the training is needed,” Pigora said.
Education leaders can go through different scenarios. For example, they can learn how to respond if they have to close schools and how to keep education going.
However, that’s not the only thing you can learn at the show.
From Baghdad to Orlando, we’re taking you through what the Army goes through to get ready for combat.
It looks real inside the medical simulation center. Army soldiers are firing their guns. People are injured and soldiers need to take action.
It’s all apart of medical simulation training, which is critical to teach soldiers how to respond and care for those injured in the battlefield.
“It is very important,” said Maj. Wilson Ariza. “A soldier gets to train hours before deployment. So we know that before they deploy they are 100 percent proficient in their skills.
From swine flu to the battleground, medical simulation technology is growing.
The bottom line is better training means more lives are saved, and that’s what people said counts.
