Abstract

RAMOS BALLESTEROS, Edward Julián; VARON DURAN, Gloria Margarita  and  MENDEZ CORDOBA, Luis Carlos. Design and implementation of a network of emulators to recreate clinical scenarios of the respiratory system in neonatal patients. Tecnura [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.48, pp.53-67. ISSN 0123-921X.  https://doi.org/10.14483/udistrital.jour.tecnura.2016.2.a04.

Context/Objectives: The objective is to design and implement a network of emulators in order to develop make a practical workshop in the future with students in the area of health, testing their knowledge and learn from the experienced before exercising their professional life. Method: The network is composed of a Central Control Module (CM), which allows teachers to create clinical scenarios, and three Emulators for students. Once created the scenarios, they are transmitted to a emulator that was chosen through a graphical interface, allowing the student to observe the values and signals of vital signs in both the physical part (ME: Dummy Emulator) and the graphic part (IE: Interface Emulator), and take action depending on the knowledge acquired in their studies. Then a response process is generated showing the results of actions to the teachers. Finally, the teacher makes a comparison of the clinical scenarios with the response, to evaluate the students and thus he also stimulates learning in them. Results: Implementation features after performing a series of tests are as follows: the maximum distances of the components with respect to MC, without losing optimum performance of network, is 8 meters for IE and 12 meters for the ME. In addition with techniques implemented, it is reduced by 13.28% runtime when programming the clinical scenario, and it is reduced by 21.78% runtime of response process, settling in 8.42 and 4.99 seconds respectively. Conclusions: Given the maximum distance and runtimes, the network of emulators is built with features necessary to implement a practical workshop in the future taking into account the technical specifications, traffic conditions, size of the classrooms, users in parallel and the frequency of used.

Keywords : Neonatal Emulator; Clinical Scenario; Neonate; Radio Frequency (RF); Communication Network; Respiratory System.

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