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• Right atrial pressure
• Pressure in the pulmonary artery
• Cardiac output by means of thermodilution
The system dynamically models the arterial blood gases values according to current alveolar
concentrations of carbon dioxide and oxygen. It is possible to simulate both metabolic
acidosis and alkalosis.
Pharmacologicalsystem
The whole-body patient simulator contains a pre-programmed pharmacokinetic and
pharmacodynamic model for more than 60 different types of drugs. Drug administration is
only simulated - that means that drug administration must always be set up by the simulator’s
operator during the simulation, under the direction of the trained person. Physical drug
administration can be simulated by means of an injection needle into vena cephalica, vena
basalica or vena mediana antebrachii, yet it is only an administration of the drug’s mock-up.
The simulator does not react to this mock-up in any way, the operator’s intervention is always
necessary.
Fig. 9.3: Patient window
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