Upstate's EM-STAT Center is an immersive simulation environment that replicates an emergency department setting and pre-hospital environments. The simulation technology includes:

• An "extended family" of programmable manikins of adults, children and infants. The manikins can be programmed to speak, cry, blink, bleed, and respond physiologically to medical intervention.
• Multi-media equipment, including online simulation programs of scenarios in a 'virtual' environment for student learning
• Four simulation rooms, including on that can be converted to a home environment or waiting room.
• Two debriefing/conference rooms, where recorded scenarios can be played back and analyzed to review performance.

Skills Taught

• Vital signs
• Cricothyrotomy
• Medication administration
• Defibrillation and cardiac pacing
• Chest tube insertion
• Diagnostic peritoneal lavage
• Lung, heart and bowel sounds
• Endotracheal intubaton
• Peripheral and Central IV placement
• ECG interpretation
• Needle chest decompression
• Urinary catheterization
• Hemorrhage control
• Lumbar puncture
• Ultrasound and imaging interpretation

When training in a team environment, we also stress non-technical skills, such as:

• Team building and communication
• Diagnostic reasoning
• Multiple patient incidents
• Critical decision making
• Critical incident management
• Research and evaluation