TITLE:
Arterial pulsation on a human patient simulator improved students’ pulse assessment
AUTHORS:
Akihiro Takeuchi, Tomomi Kobayashi, Minoru Hirose, Takashi Masuda, Toshiro Sato, Noriaki Ikeda
KEYWORDS:
Education; Physiology; Human Patient Simulator; Arrhythmic Pulse; Pulse Assessment
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering,
Vol.5 No.5,
May
29,
2012
ABSTRACT: Even with basic cardiovascular lectures, undergraduates do not usually experience the reality of palpation and, therefore, cannot integrate their physiological knowledge. We created a pulse training scenario of human patient simulators (HPS) to recognize and assess the normal and arrhythmic pulse of the radial artery. All 25 participants were recruited as volunteers to the study from the School of Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University. Participants received training in radial palpation of arrhythmias on HPS. The test scenario included 10 arrhythmic pulses combined with normal pulses and weak pulses. The average examination scores significantly improved, from 23.8 ± 2.8 of the pretest to 72.9 ± 3.4 of the posttest (mean and SE, N = 25, p