An Enhanced Emergency Care Simulator, ECS™

Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI®)

Sarasota, FL

The NASA program generated several technological enhancements to METI's Emergency Care Simulator (ECS), including a redesign of the hardware architecture. Among its many benefits, the new architecture increases reliability and ruggedness.

Work was performed with The Pennsylvania State University as the Research Institution, under the direction of Dr. W. Bosseau Murray and Resus LLC, under the direction of Dr. Marsh Cuttino.

• METI was featured in the June 21, 2004 issue of Forbes magazine as a health feature titled, "The Perfect Patient -- A new simulator for medical training could prove better than the real thing."
• METI's ECS was featured on NBC's hit show ER in November 2003.
• METI has received $20 million in federal grants over the last seven years, funding research for simulators with specific military applications.
• METI was recently awarded a $1 million contract through the US Army for the development of a physiologically modeled, tetherless simulator.

• The METI ECS is a commercially available product and is listed on the GSA Schedule (Contract # GS-02F-0014J).
• Enhancements to the ECS made under this STTR contract will be ported directly into the ECS production line.
• The ECS emerged as a development of the Combat Trauma Patient Simulation Program (CTPS). METI is the Prime Contractor on this congressionally funded program, which is currently in Phase 7 of development.
• Since the ECS became commercially available in 2001, over 300 units have been sold to universities, hospitals, community colleges, technical schools, industry and military agencies.

• The ECS enhancements will allow medical training in various rural or isolated environments.
• A joint NASA/SBIR program looking at medical education for long duration space missions and team training for flight surgeons, astronauts and biomedical flight controllers will use the ECS primarily on the KC-135. Dr. Hal Doerr of Baylor College of Medicine is leading this program.
• The implementation of a new architecture will allow for expanded research opportunities in the areas of diagnostic cues and medical equipment testing.

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