Bill Irish

Learning to fly in the simulation lab

It sounds like an awful thing for a trauma specialist to admit. But in Dr. Daniel Howes lab, the patient dies frequently, a number of times everyday.

“But that’s OK,” he says.

It’s OK because the lab the Director of the Regional Trauma Program at KGH is talking about is the new simulation lab at the hospital. It’s where young doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists learn how to resuscitate a patient in cardiac arrest. 

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