Puncture Pete – hyperrealistic IV training arm
January 10, 2025
Why practising blood sampling on simulators is important:
Error prevention and safety: Blood sampling requires precise handling in order not to injure patients or cause infections. Simulators make it possible to practise techniques without the risk of harming real patients. Errors can be recognised and corrected without real consequences.
Technique refinement: Repeated practice is required to learn the correct technique. Simulators provide a realistic, but risk-free environment in which learners can refine their skills and improve their movements. They can simulate different scenarios and complications that could occur in the real world.
Confidence building: Practising on simulators allows medical students and trainee professionals to develop confidence in their skills. Practising blood sampling increases self-confidence as learners are better prepared for real-life situations and feel more confident performing the technique on real patients.
Time efficiency: Simulators provide the opportunity to practice common routine procedures without taking up the time and resources of a real patient. This helps to develop skills more quickly and efficiently.
Variety of scenarios: Simulators make it possible to simulate different anatomical variations and unusual scenarios that are rare in real-life practice. In this way, future specialists can also be familiarised with difficult or complex cases.
Ethics and empathy: Practising on simulators protects patients from unnecessary stress and pain that could arise from learning by doing. This promotes the ethical responsibility of future doctors and their ability to provide empathetic patient care.
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Advantages Puncture Pete:
Annoying skin replacement is a thing of the past! Our durable but soft silicone skin is easy to change! When it's time to change the veins, simply peel off the skin in seconds.
Fiddly vein installation - not with Puncture Pete! The veins remain in place when the skin is removed or attached. No more kinked or misplaced veins. Retaining lugs are integrated into the vein channels so that the veins are always held in the correct position.
Goodbye air bubbles! Air bubbles in the veins lead to a lack of return flow, which gives the practitioner the This gives the practitioner the impression that they have missed, even though they have done everything correctly. Our arms need less than 15 seconds to remove all the air bubbles from the system.
All veins can be pierced! While other arms may look good and convincingly show veins on the surface of the skin, your underlying network of tubes does not match. This leads to exercisers feeling that they are not hitting the veins because there is simply nothing to hit. We have gone to great lengths to ensure that the superficial topography matches the puncturable veins underneath. In other words - if you can see or feel a vein, then you can puncture it and you have a return flow of blood.
Diversity at Erler-Zimmer! Would you like to carry out a realistic simulation? Then make it as real as in real life. Our injection arm is available in different skin tones, light and dark skin as standard, but we are happy to customise this to your requirements on request.
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