Chest Tube Simulator

Beschreibung

Chest Tube Simulator is a hands-on educational simulation for licensed nurses, nursing and medical students, respiratory therapy learners, and clinical educators. Learners should use it under instructor supervision and follow facility policy and provider orders. Instead of memorizing diagrams, you work with a realistic, fully animated chest drain and watch every chamber respond as you change the patient's condition. See the water seal tidal with breathing, watch an air leak bubble, set the suction, and learn to read the device the way you will at the bedside. WHAT'S INSIDE Guided Lessons Step-by-step walkthroughs of the drainage system — the anatomy of each chamber, setup, reading the water seal, setting suction safely, recognizing danger, and troubleshooting for transport. The device animates through each teaching step so the concepts click. Interactive Simulator A free-play sandbox. Choose a scenario — pneumothorax, hemothorax, pleural effusion, clamped tube, overfill, and more — then adjust drainage, tidaling, and intermittent or continuous bubbling and watch the unit react in real time. Pressure Lab See the physiology behind the device. Follow modeled intrapleural and alveolar pressures through the breathing cycle across conditions like pneumothorax, tension pneumothorax, effusion, and hemothorax. Use simulated controls to visualize how modeled chest drainage and suction affect pleural pressures and lung expansion. Managing Complications Simulation-based lessons showing how licensed clinicians recognize and respond to common drainage-system problems, with reminders to follow facility policy, provider orders, and the exact device's manufacturer instructions. Challenge Yourself "What's wrong with this drain?" quizzes with a live timer, streaks, instant explanations, and a results screen — a fast way to check your understanding. Progress Tracks lessons completed and quiz performance so you can see what to review. DESIGNED FOR LEARNING • Works on iPhone and iPad • Clear, realistic device animation • No account, no ads, and no data collection IMPORTANT This app is for education and training only. It is a simulation and is NOT a medical device. Simulated values and behaviors may differ from real patients and real equipment. Never use this app to monitor, diagnose, treat, or guide patient care. Always follow clinical judgment, your facility's policies, the provider's orders, and the exact device's manufacturer instructions.

The education-only notice gets a screen of its own, and the Learn tab is drawn from your own instruments. EVERY LESSON OPENS ON THE EDUCATION-ONLY SCREEN The notice is now a step of its own at the head of every lesson, with nothing else on the screen: the lesson's name, its picture, and the words in full. Education only, not medical advice, and no replacement for clinical judgment, facility policy or provider orders. Nothing of the lesson competes with it for the screen, and it is read before the teaching begins rather than above it. Every lesson therefore counts one step more than it did, so Drainage System Anatomy runs twelve steps where it ran eleven. A lesson you had already started resumes exactly where you left it. THE LEARN TAB IS DRAWN FROM THE DEVICE ITSELF Every lesson, complication and quiz now carries its own picture instead of a symbol: the drainage unit, the water seal at its line, the suction monitor, the regulator, the wall unit, the pleura. The instruments among them are captures of this app's own device at the state the lesson teaches, not drawings of it. THE SUCTION MONITOR BEHAVES LIKE THE REAL ONE Raising the wall source past the setting that reaches the triangle mark used to change nothing on screen. The red bellows now keeps expanding as the source rises, out to a nearly full window at the top of the range. What the patient receives has not changed: the regulator, not the wall, sets that, and the lesson and the bellows information card now say so in as many words. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE The Learn tab opens on the lessons themselves, without a screen title repeating the tab you are already on. The card at the top of that tab is smaller, so more of the course is in view. An animated illustration, for simulation and education only. Not for clinical practice.

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Vaughn NextGen Education LLC

Kategorie

Medical

Version

1.3.1

Erfordert

iOS 18.0+

Größe

100.2 MB

Altersfreigabe

17+