MISSION STATEMENT

Promote excellence in clinical care, advance patient safety and improve multidisciplinary team performance through high-fidelity medical simulation.

COURSE TOPICS COVERED
 
CESI offers many simulate case scenarios covering a variety of clinical arenas as well as a wide array of task training including:
  • Basic & Advanced Airway Management
  • ED/Trauma Airway Management
  • Review of ACLS Algorithms
  • Mega Code Training
  • ICU Crisis Management
  • OR Crisis Management
  • ED/Trauma Crisis Management
  • Bioterrorism
  • Orientation to Critical Care Nursing
  • Orientation to Cardiology nursing
  • Obstetrical Emergencies
  • Anesthesia Crisis Management
  • Fire Safety

Medical Simulation Fellowship
“The names of the patients whose lives we save can never be known. Our contribution will be what did not happen to them. And, though they are unknown, we will know that mothers and fathers are at graduations and weddings they would have missed, and that grandchildren will know grandparents they might never have known, and holidays will be taken, and work completed, and books read, and symphonies heard, and gardens tended that, without our work, would never have been.”

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

The Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation at Hartford Hospital (CESI) at Hartford Hospital is an ideal setting to begin to establish a culture of patient safety and open communication among the interdisciplinary team. Its mission is to promote excellence in clinical care, advance patient safety and improve multidisciplinary team performance through high-fidelity medical simulation. Participants are able to train in a setting similar to his/her actual work environment to create an atmosphere of realism. Working in this environment lends support to the simulator’s extended capabilities to mimic multiple types of acute crises and patient care scenarios.

The first manikin was purchased through the Department of Anesthesia by Dr. Thomas Mort, who had the foresight to see the direct benefits to patient safety and health care provider education human patient simulation could offer. Dr. Mort was the champion in establishing the first Simulation Center in the State of Connecticut back in 1990.

Since then the Simulation Center has been renamed and expanded its new state-of-the-art regional training facility. CESI has expanded from 900 square feet on South Building 5 to 14,000 square feet in the ERC second floor. The new facility is comprised of three separate areas:
• Robotic and endovascular simulators
• Task trainers, ultrasound technology and Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS)
• Five simulated clinical environments each with its own control room. There is Labor & Delivery, Resuscitation, ICU, Trauma/ED and an Operating Room.

We are now able to accommodate most clinical areas and have seen our programs grow exponentially with the addition of “Boot Camps” for first year residents. The Departments of Anesthesia, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Ob-Gyn and Surgery are all using the facility to orient their first year residents to their clinical practices. The residents are able to experience hands on training without the added pressure of performing tasks on real people. It builds their confidence and allows them to learn, practice and repeat procedures in a controlled, non-rushed environment.

CESI has been the recipient of major equipment gifts from Olympus, Ethicon, Intuitive Surgical and Cordis. CESI just acquired an endovascular simulator from Cordis that will be up and running by the end of the month and will include cardiac cath modules.

Both the Navy and Air National Guard now use our facility for their training purposes. The Navy trains their independent duty coremen here annually and the Air National Guard trained a group prior to their deployment to Afghanistan.

CESI has also provided numerous tours to industry executives as well as state leaders such as Senator Larson, Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Jewel Mullen, Civil Support Services, and Governor Malloy.

CESI has been nationally recognized as a Center of Excellence by the Laerdal Corporation (the simulators’ vendor). Currently, CESI is one of only 20 centers recognized nationally. This major achievement did not come with any financial compensation from Laerdal, but has established CESI as a role model for others.

CESI is available and open to everyone and we encourage anyone with interest to come and see the facility. Stop by or give a call at 860-972-0003 to set up a tour and become involved in the new wave of training for the future.