IPEP Equipment

The Interprofessional Education and Practice (IPEP) Center houses a variety of high-fidelity simulators, including HAL, trauma HAL, Noelle, newborn Troy, pediatric HAL, and Harvey. High-fidelity simulators provide safe and effective training opportunities for students in the health professions.

Learn more about high-fidelity simulators

A student works on a simulation mannequin in a hospital bed in the Interprofessional Education and Practice Center.

Interprofessional and Education Practice Center Director, Amy Malheim, interacts with two students in white coats while working with a simulation mannequin.

HAL

HAL is a multipurpose patient simulator designed to simulate cases across a variety of clinical areas. HAL posseses a wide array of features specific to the airway, circulation, breathing, and the heart.

Airway features	Circulation features	Breathing features	Cardiac features	Other features
Oral or nasal intubation	Blood pressure by palpation or auscultation	Control rate and depth of respiration and observe chest rise	Real-time CPR feedback: compressions and ventilations are measured and logged	Real time or pre-recorded speech responses
Programmable airway	Pulse sites synchronized with blood pressure and heart rate	Select independent lung sounds	Heart sounds may be auscultated and are synchronized with electrocardiogram	Seizures/convulsions
Sensors to detect the depth of intubation	Bilateral intravenous arms with fill/drain sites	Chest rise and lung sounds are synchronized with selectable breathing patterns	Cyanosis and vital signs are paired with physiological condition and interventions	Pupils dilate
Multiple upper airway sounds synchronized with breathing	Intraosseous access in tibia	Bilateral chest rise and fall		Auscultate bowel sounds
	Defibrillate, cardiovert, and pace using real devices	Unilateral chest rise simulates pneumothorax		Supports nasogastric tube placement
	Multiple heart sounds, rates, and intensities	Bag valve mask ventilation
	Electrocardiogram rhythms are generated in real time
	Oxygen saturation can be detected using real monitors

Trauma HAL

Trauma HAL has all the features of HAL with the addition of an interchangeable trauma and health lower left arm and leg and arm and leg tourniquet sensors. Trauma HAL also includes a bleeding groin wound that detects applied pressure.

Noelle

Noelle is an obstetric patient simulator that includes the following features:

Programmable normal, breech, shoulder dystocia, instrument-assisted delivery, and caesarean-section.
Force sensors that monitor traction applied to the fetus in real-time.
Realistic birth canal with a dilating cervix.
Palpable contractions.
Supports Leopold’s and McRoberts maneuvers.
Automatic and fully programmable birthing mechanism simulates descent and cardinal movements.

Newborn Troy

Newborn Troy is a forty-week full-term newborn simulator with a variety of features including:

Realistic joint articulations of the neck, shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee.
Neck hyperextension and airway obstruction with event capture and logging.
Programmable crying and grunting sounds.
Programmable muscle tone: bilateral or unilateral arm movement, reduced, and limp.
Lifelike umbilical cord.
Fontanelle, brachial, and umbilical pulses.

Pediatric HAL

Pediatric Hal is the physical size of a five-year-old child with similar functionality to the HAL.

Harvey

Harvey has nine cardiac and six pulmonary auscultatory areas. Harvey is also programmed with fifty patient scenarios.