A NEW CARDIOLOGY PATIENT SIMULATOR

We report a new cardiology patient simulator developed through the app lication of new digital computer technology, capable of playing back s elected physical findings (jugular-venous waves, arterial pulses of ca rotid, brachial, radial and femoral arteries, and cardiac impulses), a s well as cardiac sounds, murmurs and respiratory sounds that have bee n prerecorded from actual patients. The examining physician uses an or dinary type of stethoscope. Four built-in speakers are located in the human-sized mannequin at the classic auscultatory sites (aortic, pulmo nic, tricuspid and mitral). This compact and portable educational appa ratus should facilitate medical training in the bedside cardiac examin ation, of physicians, medical students, nurses and paramedics througho ut the world.