Simulation training affords the opportunity for realistic, interactive educational experiences, while simultaneously fostering healthcare team communication and improving patient care. The Academy, in an alliance with Laerdal Medical, has developed high and low fidelity pediatric simulators and scenarios that compliment the learning objectives of pediatric life support curriculum and help improve technique, communication and team work skills. With the advent of advanced simulator technology, physicians can now become competent performing procedures they would otherwise rarely encounter, such as umbilical vein catheterization, or needle decompression of a tension pneumothorax. Thereby, errors in technique or judgment become teachable moments rather than incidents of patient morbidity and mortality.
