Aeromedical Simulation Training & Education

1. Aeromedical Simulation Training & Education Major Chad Corliss 94 AES/DO 5/11/2012

2. Disclaimer: This presentation is for information only. No US Government commitment to sell, loan, lease, develop, co-develop, co-produce or endorse defense articles or services is implied or intended.

3. Overview • Program Review (50,000 foot view) • What is Simulation • Why use Simulation • Why we Need Simulation • Suspend Disbelief – How do we use simulation • The ASTEC

4. The 50,000 foot View • Integrate Simulation Technology into Education, Training and Sustainment platforms • Build a Distributed Human Patient Simulation Network • Exploit Technological Innovations • Mitigate loss of Current “Training” pipelines

5. What is Simulation?

6. What is a Simulator? • A Device or exercise that enables a participant to reproduce or represent… • A method to teach the application of critical thinking skills, communication and team interactions; Risk Free learning Environment – errors can be allowed to occur

7. What is a Simulator? • A Device or exercise that enables a participant to reproduce or represent…

8. What is a Medical Simulator? • A Device or exercise that enables a participant to reproduce or represent… • Supports clinical decision making – not just a task trainer; Ability to train high-risk, low-frequency clinical events

9. Why use Simulation?

10. The Promise

11. Why Simulation for Training • There is a big difference… • …between seeing and understanding… • …between watching and doing… • That’s what makes training and simulation so vital to operational success

12. How do People Learn • Retention • 5% - Lecture • 20% - Audio/Visual – Death by PowerPoint • 30% - Demonstration • 75% - Learn by DOING – Simulations • 90% Teach Others – Collaborative Simulations • Interaction is associated with Learning achievement and retention of knowledge *Source Andersen Consulting

13. Why we need simulation

14. Chasing Zero • We entered combat operations with an existing stateside AE mission, and AF fixed medical facilities Those training venues no longer exist • One decade at war…How are we doing? • 72 Hours • 98% • Increasing Focus on Patient Safety

15. Why we need Simulation

16. Iraq (OIF) US Service Members KIA/DOW/WIA- OIF May 2003 – Sept 2010

17. Tier I Sites • Wilford Hall * • Keesler * • Travis * • C-STARS Saint Louis • C-STARS Baltimore • C-STARS Cincinnati • USAFSAM - EMEDS * • Lakenheath UK • National Capitol Area Simulation Center (USUHS) • Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute (DMRTI) * Simulation Operator Course Luke, Nellis, WP

18. AE Formal Training Unit • iSTAN is currently used in conjunction with aircraft fuselage trainers to provide “simulated” training missions • Flight Nurse and AeroMed Tech training reduced from 90-180 days to 30 days • Same or exceeding the level clinical “Care in the Air”

19. Simulation is more than Plastic People • Virtual Reality/AF-WAVE (Wide Area Virtual Environment) • Serious Gaming/Computer Based Training • Virtual Clinics • Tactile Video and Audience Response - Critical Thinking Excercises • Virtual Iraq – Treatment for PTSD

20. Riding the W.A.V.E.

21. Caught in the Web

22. Virtual Iraq

23. Suspend Disbelief • We must replicate the Environment of Care

24. No matter what the ‘Environment’

25. So how do we ‘Simulate’ that

26. The ASTEC… …an immersive training environment that includes very realistic clinical scenarios with high-fidelity simulated patients… We can simulate onboard emergencies. When you are inside, the sound, the feel, the environment, is absolutely realistic, and we are able to challenge crews with highly complicated missions that are modeled on actual missions and challenging patients who have returned from combat environments

27. Questions ?