HPS ®

T he Go l d S ta n d a r d f o r Me d i c a l E duc at i on
 HPS...
unmatched realism
with objective
performance
assessment
Pericardiocentesis
Intercostal
Reactive eyes: blink, Pneumothorax palpable ribs
Interchangeable
neurological assessment decompression Chest compression genitalia
Independent
ECG Urinary output
chest
Realistic excursion Defibrillation Peritoneal
airway lavage
Trachea Breath
with realistic Pacing
Breakaway sounds Chest Bowel
teeth anatomical tube Bilateral sounds
landmarks Heart Bilateral
brachial radial
sounds pulse
Voice IV arm pulse Thumb
Carotid
pulse twitch
 In hospitals, medical and nursing schools, community colleges and military bases all over
the world, METI’s Human Patient Simulator® (HPS) is recognized as the gold standard
for healthcare education. This fully automatic, high fidelity simulator is specifically
designed for training in anesthesia, respiratory and critical care. It’s the only simulator
available with the ability to provide respiratory gas exchange, anesthesia delivery and
patient monitoring with real physiological clinical monitors.

Medical Simulation Saves Lives

Training health care professionals is no easy task: the challenge is far too complex – and
too important – to be left to the task trainers of yesterday. Only in the aviation industry
can you find a valid comparison to the healthcare field’s life-and-death necessity for
rapid response, combined with unerring knowledge,
skill and teamwork. For both pilots and healers,
it’s an inescapable dilemma: where mistakes happen,
lives can be lost. So it was no coincidence when
computer simulation as a primary learning tool made
the evolutionary leap from ultra-engineered flying
machines to the natural intricacies of the human body.

But medical education called for entirely new

simulation models, given the complexity of human
physiology and pharmacology and the wide range
of possible therapeutic interventions. That’s why
METI Human Patient Simulators have at their core
sophisticated mathematical models of human physiology – cardiovascular, respiratory,
neurological and pharmacologic – that imitate human response in multi-layered, real-time
ways that are vital to a truly objective learning experience. No other product in the world
comes close to offering this unique technology.

Realistic
skin
Bilateral
femoral
pulse Bilateral Bilateral
popliteal pedal
pulse pulse
You’re in Complete Control
The HPS sets a new standard in medical education
that has yet to be matched. Through a painstaking
marriage of “high touch” with “high tech,” this
dramatically functional simulator delivers an easily
controlled teaching laboratory where students can
practice again and again, until the highest quality
patient care becomes second nature.

Patients: Quality of care can be difficult to

measure when no two patients are alike. With
the HPS, any patient profile can be created –
or modified from preconfigured profiles – to offer
a specific set of exacting objectives that test the
limits of learners. The patient’s cardiovascular,
pulmonary and neurologic characteristics and
responses – right down to the flutter of an eyelid
or the size of a pupil – can be controlled.

Simulations: Because the HPS is model-driven,

just about anything that can happen to a real
patient – from common problems to severe events,
such as malignant hyperthermia, anaphylaxis,
tension pneumothorax and cardiac tamponade –
can be simulated and tailored.

Drugs: Learning to administer the right drug

in the right dosage to the right patient requires
knowledge and experience. Using barcode tech-
nology, the HPS requires learners to scan a given
drug allowing the instructor and learner the ability
to track the thought process as it pertains to the
development of a plan of care. This forces learners
to evaluate key factors prior to administering the
drug, including: drug specificity, pediatric versus
adult dosages, IV versus oral administration, and
any specific drug allergy considerations.

Standard Equipment
• Adult Mannequin • HPS6™ Software
• Control Rack • 30 Pre-programmed
• Instructor’s Workstation Adult Patient Profiles
Computer • 60 Pre-programmed
• Waveform Display Simulated Clinical
Monitor Experiences (SCE™)

Optional Equipment
• Pediatric Mannequin • Computer Bag
• Full-function Monitor • Mannequin Carrying Case
Interface • Trauma/Disaster
• Anesthesia Delivery Casualty Kit (TDCK™)
System
• Remote Control Laptop
HPS Clinical Features
The HPS offers the highest level of clinical features and monitored parameters including palpable pulses, self-regulating control
of breathing, heart, breath and bowel sounds, electrocardiograms, pulmonary artery pressure, cardiac output and more.

Adult Mannequin Cardiovascular Trauma

• Heart sounds • Reactive eyes
• Full-size reproduction of an adult male
or female patient with interchangeable • Electrocardiogram • Pericardiocentesis
genitalia • Palpable carotid, radial, brachial, • Bilateral needle decompression
• Fully operational in supine, sitting, femoral, popliteal and pedal pulses of tension pneumothorax
lateral and prone positions • Cardiac output • Bilateral chest tube placement
• Demonstrates clinical signs such as • Cardiac dysrhythmias and management
heart, breath and bowel sounds, • Arterial blood temperature
palpable pulses, chest excursion and Patient Monitoring
airway patency, which are dynamically • Central venous pressure
• Connects to standard patient monitors
coupled with mathematical models of • Hemodynamic monitoring
to display the following parameters:
human physiology and pharmacology • Pulmonary artery catheter
• Arterial blood pressure
• ACLS/ALS
• Left ventricular pressure
Airway • Chest compression
• Realistic adult upper airway • Central venous pressure
• Airway management and ventilation
(oropharynx, nasopharynx and larynx) • Right arterial pressure
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Direct laryngoscopy and oral or nasal • Right ventricular pressure
tracheal intubation • Defibrillation
• Pulmonary artery pressure
• Right or left mainstem endobronchial • Pacing
• Thermodilution cardiac output
intubation automatically results in • Cardioversion
• Pulmonary capillary occlusion
unilateral breath sounds and chest pressure
excursion Metabolic • Pulmonary artery catheter insertion
• Esophageal intubation results in gastric • Arterial blood gases
distension and the absence of breath • 5-lead ECG
• Metabolic acidosis and alkalosis
sounds, chest excursion and carbon • NIBP
dioxide output • SpO2
• Airway visualization occluder Genitouorinary
• Male and female genitalia for insertion • Temperature
• Varying degrees of tongue swelling, of urinary catheters • Inspired and expired gas
hindering laryngoscopy and concentrations and ventilatory
endotracheal intubation • Excretion of urine
mechanics can be measured and
• Laryngospasm displayed on respiratory gas
• Needle cricothyrotomy, transtracheal Neurologic monitors
jet ventilation, retrograde wire • Cardiovascular and respiratory
techniques and tube cricothyrotomy responses to sympathetic and
can be practiced parasympathetic activities
• Supports standard clinical devices • Standard peripheral nerve stimulator
such as combitubes, lighted stylets for twitch response
and fibre-optic intubation tubes • Reactive eyes that blink and automati-
cally respond to changing light stimuli
simulating neurologic trauma
Pulmonary
• Spontaneous respiration
• Mechanical ventilation Pharmacologic
• Includes library of pre-programmed
• Assisted ventilation
pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic
• Chest excursion parameters for over 50 intravenous
• Oxygen consumption medications
• Uptake and elimination of anesthetic • Barcode reader identifies drug,
gases concentration and dosage and
• Variable lung and thorax compliance patient responds appropriately
• Variable airway resistance • Three intravenous access points:
right arm, right internal jugular
• Breath sounds and left femoral veins
• Intrapleural volume
• Functional residual capacity
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For more information regarding HPS, contact your regional sales manager by calling
866-233-METI (6384), or contact the METI distributor in your country.

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