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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."
Maybe now my dentist can learn how to inject novocaine without stabbing me painfully 6 times :) (I just had $6k of dental work done... :( )
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It's simple, you just take a nice red Sharpie....
I almost had the first post, but I was too busy using the virtual hand to give myself a virtual hand jo^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hback massage....
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"G" would be useful. :p
People should come with operating instructions
"Insert tab A into slot B" should pretty much obviate the need for sex education. The down-side is that it would make it easier for us Slashdotters to procreate.
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She had tattoed instructions on her arm how to do CPR
If we would try to compare this to the fact that no one RTFM's anymore, then i guess we would all be dead
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Why didn't they just use Thing from The Addams Family? He always seemed willing to lend a helping hand.
boom-cha!
Thanks, I'll be here all week!
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"Hmmm...upgrades."
... to a virtual girl . Nice of them to think of the Slashdot crew for a change...
Why can't we all just have implants...remember Neo and his IV...looked pretty simple to apply an IV
beside, if we had the head implant, the people with enough bio-RAM might be able to play Doom 10...I mean I mean, doctors may be able to explore and fix issues with our brain
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Boy, that's problem-solving...
I have a mole on my arm that reads "STAB HERE FOR VEIN". Seriously. Nice and well placed, all they have to do is come close and they'll get a perfect stick.
So this nurse in Indiana screws it up. She stabs THRU the vein. Blood sprays all over the tube. She gets another tube, stabs, misses, sprays again.
after the 5th stick I'm pale white and about to pass out... I get up to leave, and this old, black nurse comes in and says "Honey you sit yourself right down, i'll get it and you won't even know".
I raise my arm to protest, she grabs it and sticks it in one smooth motion, so smooth I never felt the needle.
Man I love that woman.
The instructions are so context-dependant as to be misleading.
You could be half way through the CPR instructions and suddenly find the foreplay instructions and then you'll be arrested for both trying to revive and fondle accident victims.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
People should come with operating instructions :)
In the case of my ex-, they'd be less of operating instructions and more on the scale of "Users' Guide - Volumes I-X" with each volume being on the rough size scale of the entire Wheel of Time series.
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In event of X, do Y, unless conditions AA through FT are valid. In the case of conditons BA through BZ, do the exact opposite of Y, unless EA through EF, in which case Y still applies with sub-condition Z. If the wind is north-easterly, see sub-section A.4.4.12.IV.
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Ignore everything up to this point if you have eaten breakfast today.
- Relativistic? That's barely Newtonian!
I used to go to a technical school that offered various vocational training. There was my floor with the computer dept. It was 60% guys. A couple of floors up was the medical / nursing area. All girls.
They had to practice giving shots and such on live human beings. Once they were tired of stabbing each other they would wander down to the geek farm in search of brave young men willing to sacrifice their arms to advance medical science.(i.e. suckers) They figured that just because they were attrctive, dressed like nurses (even through they weren't) and the guys were all loney introverted dorks, they would be able to find lots of willing arms to practice on. They were right.
I fell for this a lot.
As a side note, being stabbed by a girl repeatedly doesn't win you her respect or admiration as much as you might think. Go figure.
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