DESCRIPTION
The vision of the Disaster and Emergency Healthcare Training Facility is to enhance patient safety and treatment by simulating disaster scenarios and providing the opportunity to practice, prepare and analyze every aspect of the chain of care and treatment. 
Our vision will bridge medical simulation from health care education to community-based health care practice. In addition, our course structure will focus on biological and chemical preparedness for health and environmental professional and civil support teams.
By utilizing sophisticated human mannequin simulators that have married the "high tech" with "realistic human response" elements, the Center will simulate emergency conditions and employ hands on practicing to repeat emergency procedures until patient care becomes second nature. The key to learning is to develop "critical thinking", and be able to respond to the myriad of human conditions that they will encounter outside of the Center. For more information regarding the activities at the Disaster and Emergency Training Center, please contact rslaw@fau.edu. For directions to the Research Park location of the Training Center, click here.
- Ira J. Gelb, MD - Director of Clinical Programs Professor of Clinical Biomedical Science
- Mark Goldstein - Director of Disaster and Emergency Training Facility
- Larry Brickman, MD - Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
- Robert Moreland - Division Chief City of Delray Beach Director BLS/ACLS Training Center
- Glen Josephs - Deputy Chief City of Boca Raton Fire/Rescue
FIRST RESPONDER TRAINING
Florida Atlantic University has developed a Center for Disaster and Emergency Healthcare Training whose purpose is to prepare and certify First Responders asked to perform rapid treatment on a host of new scenarios, including biochemical, nuclear and biological agents. How to identify, treat or restrict entry based on symptoms, is a challenge today. What is needed is a simulation of the emergency scenarios that replicates and facilitates analysis of the chain of patient safety and treatment, both under normal and unconventional (disaster) circumstances. Such a simulation involves multiple providers, multiple care environments and multiple simulated patients, which together constitutes a live replication of community based medicine for system wide learning and assessment.
The problem with most real time simulations is that the patient is not really at risk. There is no "suspension of disbelief" associated with the event, so the process of simulation is academic at best. Given the new level of human patient simulators, and the ability to enhance even further the realistic physiological responses, we can provide for a more advanced training experience to replicate the real world victim's environment.
The Simulation Center applies Human Mannequin Simulation Technology to train and certify Healthcare Providers in the Identification, Isolation and Treatment of Biological, Chemical, Nuclear and other Terrorist events. The Center will leverage our Regional Medical Campus training for emergency medicine by coordinating the training of medical students, nurses, experienced physicians, first responders and EMT personnel to deal with simulated threat scenarios by providing real life conditions that duplicate the pathological responses to these events. The Center will develop an Accreditation process to Certify the participants in the Emergency Management Process.
FAU is committed to the development of a Facility for First Responders that addresses scenarios that utilize and follows the specific protocols of each individual Fire/Rescue Unit. However the treatment responses for trauma as well as nuclear, biological and chemical events are described, we will incorporate them for each of our First Responder partner. The Facility will focus on qualifying, through an assessment and certification process, all participants who have already been trained by your organization. The goal is to enhance their critical thinking, and identify any weaknesses for remediation training. In addition, the Facility is developing advanced training for Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Disaster Life Support (ADLS). Each of these courses will be available to your staff for training and certification.
As part of our desire to collaborate on the Facility, FAU has extended an open invitation to join our group, and we have created a framework of an agreement that describes the relationship FAU will develop with each specific Unit. Individual Certification Programs for Emergency Medical Responders will be tailored to your requests. Please contact Mark Goldstein at FAU for additional information. His email address is mgolds17@fau.edu.
The vision of the Center for Emergency Healthcare is to enhance patient safety and treatment by simulating the disaster scenarios and providing the opportunity to practice, prepare and analyze every aspect of the chain of care and treatment. Our vision will bridge medical simulation from health care education to community-based health care practice. In addition, our course structure will focus on biological and chemical preparedness for health and environmental professional and civil support teams.
As part of that vision, we have created a two bed Emergency Room. Here Emergency Room teams can practice responses to disaster scenarios, including the inter-disciplinary communications and protocols required to run an efficient ER. Additional substitute Doctors and Nurses can be added to role play various scenarios.
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