Hemorrhage control simulator

A method of using a simulator, the simulator comprising a physical surrogate for a portion of a simulated human patient, the surrogate having a surface feature of a portion of a human body, the method comprising:

• receiving an input video feed from a camera system aimed at the surrogate;
• determining, based at least in part on the input video feed, a location of the surrogate and at least one movable object other than the surrogate;
• detecting an interaction between the at least one object and the surrogate based at least in part on the determined location of the surrogate and the at least one movable object;
• generating a simulated hemodynamic consequence of the detected interaction between the at least one object and the surrogate based on a computational model of a human body's hemodynamic system;
• generating a simulated location and appearance of the simulated hemodynamic consequence on the simulated human patient;
• identifying a portion of the simulated hemodynamic consequence that is not obstructed from a user's view according to the simulation;
• generating a visual rendering of the portion of the appearance of the simulated hemodynamic consequence;
• determining from the simulated location of the simulated hemodynamic consequence a corresponding position of the visual rendering relative to the surrogate;
• generating an output video feed that comprises at least the visual rendering;
• and
• displaying the output video feed on a display that is positioned so that the visual rendering is viewable along a line of sight toward the position of the visual rendering relative to the surrogate.

A simulator comprising:

• a physical surrogate for a portion of a simulated human patient, the surrogate having the surface features of a portion of a human body;
• a camera system aimed at the surrogate to provide all input video feed;
• a glove comprising a pulse generator configured to receive a simulated pulse signal and generate a pulse representative of the simulated pulse signal, the generated pulse being manually detectable by a user's hand wearing the glove;
• and
• a processor having a program embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium operatively connected to the camera system and pulse generator,
• wherein the program is programmed to simulate an interaction between the user's hand and the patient, the program being programmed to, in real time:
• receive the input video signal,
• determine, based at least in part on the input video signal, a location of the surrogate and the glove,
• calculate the simulated pulse signal based on a hemodynamic model of at least the portion of the simulated human patient and the determined location of the surrogate and the glove, and
• transmit the simulated pulse signal to the pulse generator.