Training Nurses With Virtual Veins

meganthom writes "UK Haptics is developing a virtual hand to help nurses learn how to draw blood and put in IVs in a realistic manner. Though plastic models are currently used, these do not give new nurses the 'feel' for how much pressure to apply to the needle, and they cannot alert the nurse about pain. The system currently under development, which uses haptics, would make the learning experience considerably more realistic, even telling the nurse when too much pressure was applied."

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Thank Tony Blair

[Anonymous Coward]

The UK has cut so much out of their education budget to pay for Bush's Iraq war that steps like these are now necessary. And it's only going to get worse. Now that the steady dismantling of the US constitution is well underway the rights of British citizens will be next.

Re:Sweet

[stratjakt]

This is being developed in the UK, so needless to say, dentistry is the very last thing on their minds.

Note to any british who take offense: Relax, I'm just making a reference to your horrible, disgusting, misshapen, snaggly, rotten, green teeth.

Re:Sweet

[stratjakt]

Now tell me that Tony Blair is a fucking genious and the most skilled world leader evar.

Mr Kettle. With your snaggly ugly teeth.

(I'm not American, BTW)

Re:Sweet

[YellowElf]

No, bush is not a monkey! He's a self-serving, self-righteous, screw-the-world-we're-good-they're-evil man who refuses to put himself above reproach and who can't be bothered with detail. Only a man could be that destructive.

Oh, btw, I'm american.