Simulation room in the subject of pediatrics - a modern technology of practical training of students and assessment of their knowledge, including the mastering of practical skills, the development of automatically repeatable actions, adequate decision-making, based on the modeling of clinical and other situations close to real conditions.

  Goals of the simulation center:

  Formation and improvement of practical skills necessary in the activity of pediatrician and neonatologist, in accordance with the qualified requirements.

Objectives of the simulation room :

• Formation of skills of palpation, auscultation, percussion of lungs and heart in children and newborns on the basis of simulation technologies;
• Development of a stable stereotype of actions necessary for the successful implementation of life-saving measures for the injured child;
• Training in manipulations performed on a child (practicing the technique of catheterization of central veins, umbilical vein, venipuncture and other manipulations on a newborn;
• Teaching skills in caring for children of different ages;
• Training in diagnostic procedures for children and newborns.

    Equipment needed:

• CHARLIE multifunctional robotic trainer with a system for monitoring the basic vital signs of a one-year-old;
• Stationary sensor ventilator;
• babysim™ six-month-old infant simulator robot;
• A robotic simulator of a 6-year-old pediasim™ patient;
• Mannequin simulators of different ages for practicing foreign body removal skills;
• ELTEK-Baby simulator for successful life-saving interventions on an injured child;
• A mannequin-simulator of a premature newborn baby;
• as well as mannequins for general child care manipulation, etc.

  The results of work in the simulation room of pediatrics will allow:

• to consolidate the theoretical knowledge obtained;
• reduce the level of psychological stress when performing the first manipulations;
• to teach manipulations performed on children and newborns (practicing the technique of catheterization of central veins, umbilical vein, venipuncture and other manipulations on a newborn);
• practicing propaedeutic skills in the methods of examination of children;
• practicing skills in providing emergency and urgent therapy in children, the technique of closed heart massage and ventilation;
• conduct and practice skills of physical examination of cardiovascular and pulmonary systems;
• analyze and correct mistakes;
• will allow an objective assessment of the degree of formation of the necessary skills of a pediatrician.

  Thus, methods and simulation training in pediatrics and neonatology at the stages of the educational process allow students to get the opportunity to practice practical skills before the beginning of the practical activity of the doctor.

  The simulation room consists of 4 zones:

1. Resuscitation area;
2. Neonatal care zone;
3. Therapeutic and diagnostic zone;
4. Pediatric propaedeutics zone.

    1. RESUSCITATION ZONE:

  Practical skills that the student can demonstrate in providing emergency medical care: 

• indirect cardiac massage;
• mouth-to-mouth ventilations;
• ventilating with an AMBU bag;
• tracheal intubation with connection to a ventilator;
• nasogastric tube insertion;
• umbilical catheterization;
• bladder catheterization (for girls, for boys)
• determination of arterial pulse in seven points;
• administration of IV injections;

    2.  NEWBORN CARE AREA:

  Practical skills that the student can demonstrate:

• flushing the eyes;
• treatment of the nasal passages;
• toileting of the external ear canal;
• prevention of skin rash;
• treatment of the navel.

    3. THERAPEUTIC AND DIAGNOSTIC ZONE:

  Practical skills that the student can demonstrate:

• flushing the eyes;
• treatment of the nasal passages;
• toileting of the external ear canal;
• prevention of skin rash;
• treatment of the navel.

    4. THERAPEUTIC AND DIAGNOSTIC ZONE:

  Practical skills that the student can demonstrate:

• height measurement;
• measuring body length;
• determining body weight;
• measurement of head circumference;
• measurement of chest circumference.

  Thus, methods and simulation training in pediatrics and neonatology at the stages of the educational process allow students to get the opportunity to practice practical skills before the beginning of the practical activity of the doctor.