Friday’s Baltimore Sun has a story (Simulating surgery for med students) on the opening of the Maryland Surgical Simulation Training and Technology Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. UMBC PhD students Patricia Ordonex and and Palanivel Kodeswaranwere at the opening demonstrating their work on pervasive computing, along with Drs. Yesha and Joshi. The Sun article leads with the METI human patient simulator Stan (Standard Man).

“Stan lies on a seventh-floor surgical table, his chest rising and falling with each breath. His eyes blink as doctors approach. Prone to fevers, muscle aches and chest pains, Stan is hooked to a monitor that tracks his blood pressure, heart rate and other vitals. But no one at the University of Maryland Medical Center worries much about Stan’s health. That’s because he’s a mannequin – albeit a very expensive one. He’s one example of the high-tech teaching tools the medical school unveiled this week to train students, residents and doctors without risking the health of patients.”

We know Stan well, as it was used as a source of data as part of our research on developing pervasive computing system for the future operating rooms. See this technical report for more information.

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