At Sheffield Hallam University, I meet the Clinical Simulation team, and deal with some surprisingly animated patients. | ▶️ Unblurred version available on Nebula, along with next week's episode right
This video is a great example of why youtube's no gore policy is needlessly anti-educational.
Tom Scott has made an excellent video which shows a rare realistic simulation of a crisis moment, but I'm unable too see how the tourniquet should be applied because what... the blood might scare away advertisers?
There is NO reason why this video should be blurred. It's good that Nebula is an alternative, but still, there's no reason youtube couldn't make exceptions for educational content like this. I doubt that it would effect adds at all
I did a lot of stuff like this (although not as high fidelity) when I was a student paramedic, and it's surprising how much your brain forgets that it's a mannequin when you're under pressure and stressed. Okay, you might physically be aware that it's a mannequin, but the training effect is very real.
Fun fact, these mannequins are one of the reasons I quit nursing school. I am TERRIFIED of mannequins, and making it so that they can talk, blink, bleed, scream, give birth......... I couldn't do it, man. I passed out during a tour of the building when the professor was giving a demonstration. I can handle actual blood, compound fractures, seizures, live birth, ANYTHING you throw at me... as long as it's an actual human.
If it seems funny that Tom is freaked out by the mannequins, to be fair, some of these medical simulations can be scarily realistic. For example, it’s been almost 20 years and everyone still thinks I’m a real doctor
"Into the uncanny valley, and out the other side" was the old title.
"I was not prepared for a mannequin that can bleed." definitely generates more clicks.
It amuses me that the screaming mannequin is next to the open window, which is near parking spaces.
Imagine getting out of your car, not being aware of what is nearby, and hearing that.
There was an overweight individual in one of the exam rooms at an office that I provided IT support to. They told me in the hallway outside that person's exam room, quote, "The COW is in the next room," pointed me in the correct direction, and sent me off to troubleshoot the computer.
COW, in this instance, stood for "Computer on Wheels".
I once volunteered as a victim in amass casualty simulation. The director, who was meeting with all the volunteers, deciding what our injuries were got an evil smile when I told her I was a real life amputee.
The took my prosthesis and put my pantleg under something heavy that was meant to have fallen over.
When the paramedic saw he, for a moment he thought somehow I'd actually been seriously injured. I laughed at his reaction which broke the illusion, cluing him into the fact this was still a simulation.
It was really a lot of fun. And it makes for good training.
This is the last of the Simulation and Training trilogy, and the first of the Yorkshire Trilogy! Next week's episode, available on Nebula now, has less blood and more seagulls.
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Tom Scott has made an excellent video which shows a rare realistic simulation of a crisis moment, but I'm unable too see how the tourniquet should be applied because what... the blood might scare away advertisers?
There is NO reason why this video should be blurred. It's good that Nebula is an alternative, but still, there's no reason youtube couldn't make exceptions for educational content like this. I doubt that it would effect adds at all
Someone should make a scratch and sniff textbook
"I was not prepared for a mannequin that can bleed." definitely generates more clicks.
Imagine getting out of your car, not being aware of what is nearby, and hearing that.
There was an overweight individual in one of the exam rooms at an office that I provided IT support to. They told me in the hallway outside that person's exam room, quote, "The COW is in the next room," pointed me in the correct direction, and sent me off to troubleshoot the computer.
COW, in this instance, stood for "Computer on Wheels".
The patient did NOT interpret it that way.
The took my prosthesis and put my pantleg under something heavy that was meant to have fallen over.
When the paramedic saw he, for a moment he thought somehow I'd actually been seriously injured. I laughed at his reaction which broke the illusion, cluing him into the fact this was still a simulation.
It was really a lot of fun. And it makes for good training.