February 19, 2013

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UA simulation lab allows students Student to engage in hands-on learning leaders

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KELSEE BECKER/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT MEDICAL SIMULATION SPECIALIST LISA GRISHAM shows the different injury-related tissues featured in the Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center Lab. The ASTEC lab uses silicone and recycled vinyl to produce their own simulation dummies.

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very passing minute is crucial as a small team of students attempt to revive their patient, who lays lifeless on the table. A team leader calls out directions, while several students perform essential tasks, such as exhausting chest compressions and providing ventilation. Finally, a pulse appears on the screen, letting the team know the procedure was a success. “He’s alive!” one student shouts. The team claps and congratulates

one another, but only for a few short performed at the Arizona Simulation moments before jumpTechnology and ing back into a simulaRight now, it’s Education Center tion room for the next scenario. This particuabout the closest (ASTEC) at the University of lar simulation is called we can get Arizona College an Interprofessional without using a of Medicine. Education and Practice real patient. The lab was Cardiopulmonary — Lisa Grisham, medical simu- started in August Resuscitation Team lation specialist 2005 and Allan Behavior Simulation Hamilton, execuand includes medical, tive director of the lab, has been pharmacy and nursing students. While the adrenaline and designing tissue since the early challenges faced are real, the 90s — beginning with tissue for emergency situation is not. It is neurosurgery. Since designating a just one of the many simulations space for tissue design when the

lab opened in 2005, the lab has expanded its materials to what it uses today. The lab, like most simulation labs, uses high-fidelity mannequins to practice emergency medicine for real life situations. High-fidelity mannequins can breathe and have a pulse, according to Lisa Grisham, a medical simulation specialist at ASTEC . However, ASTEC is one of the few labs to have an in-house tissue lab that can create and

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The NAU student body senate delayed a decision Monday regarding an official declaration of its opposition to legal action against the Arizona Board of Regents by a statewide student lobbying group. However, the resolution is expected to pass, according to NAU student government officials. Student leaders at Arizona State University have already spoken out against the litigation. If the NAU resolution passes, student government bodies across the state will be formally divided over the unfolding legal battle between the regents and the Arizona Students’ Association, an organization that lobbies the state Legislature on behalf of higher education. A special session planned for Monday night did not take place because there were not enough NAU senators present to meet the required two-thirds majority for a quorum, said Ryan Lee, chair of the Associated Students of Northern Arizona University Senate. Instead, the official vote will take place at the ASNAU Senate’s regular meeting Thursday afternoon, but the resolution will likely pass, Lee said. “This resolution is being supported by President [Sammy] Smart, as well as the executive committee, written by the senate, with approval

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A UA professor hopes to make driving safer by connecting cars through radio signals. “As we look ahead to the next stage of roadway safety in America, connected vehicle technology has the potential to significantly reduce injuries and fatalities from crashes,” the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a press release. There is a big effort by the U.S. Department of Transportation to connect vehicles by equipping every vehicle with a radio so that they can communicate with one another, as well as with the infrastructure. Larry Head, an associate professor of systems and industrial engineering and head of the department, focuses on traffic signals related to radio technology. A special radio frequency, 5.9 gigahertz, is reserved by the Federal Communications Commission for connected vehicles to use. Head examines how to prioritize signals on that frequency so that traffic can

move more safely. There actually is a transmitter on a pole at the intersection of Speedway Boulevard and Mountain Avenue, Head said, but it isn’t used to change traffic signals, just to check that communications are working for testing purposes. The current system allows ambulances and fire trucks to change the traffic lights using an infrared light from a distance. “The problem is a first come, first serve design,” Head said. Head also hopes to use the technology to help traffic move more efficiently. A bus rapid transit lane is a reserved lane specifically for buses, like the streetcar will have in Tucson when finished, Head said. A bus only comes every five to 20 minutes and the rest of the time these lanes are empty. To allow cars in these lanes, Head proposed that cars and buses be equipped with a special radio capability so that, when a bus comes, it can send a message that essentially says, “I’m a bus; get out of my lane,” so that cars can make a safe lane change.

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LARRY HEAD, HEAD AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR for the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, is hoping to make driving safer by connecting cars through radio signals.

The vehicle connection has been in the works since the 1980s. In 1992, Head was asked to join a research team. The technology will hopefully someday become commonplace and legally required in every car in order to improve safety, Head said. “If you think back to when seatbelts came into cars, originally there were no seatbelts in cars,” Head said. “Then they decided over safety purposes; we’ll put seatbelts in cars and this will make it safer for everybody.”

If approved, it will take five to six years for auto manufacturers to implement the technology and it’s 10 years away from being in all vehicles, Head said. However, it still hasn’t been planned how or if older vehicles will be equipped. “Last year, 37,000 people died in auto accidents,” Head said, “and we should do something about that. Why should we have accidents when we have technology that can make it safer?”

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