a Cutting-Edge Opportunity
by COL Richard C Swoope Jr. and MSG Enid Ramos-Mandell
AN ALMOST-REAL ‘PATIENT’
High-tech, highly tactile mannequins offer the advantage of realism to Soldiers in medical training, which is especially important to Army Reserve Soldiers, who provide 68 percent of the Army’s medical care. Here, SPC Dean Buetikofer (left) and PFC Gage McVicker, both health care specialist students, assess a simulated patient’s vital signs while Medical Battalion Training Site Instructor SFC Christina Sisk controls the automated mannequin, June 12 at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA. The computer-controlled mannequins speak, breathe, and respond to treatment from the students. (Photo by SSG Shawn Miller, 109th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
