Munich,
Germany - Audio and video play a key role in the new Medical Simulation
Center at Technical University Munich in Germany. The new facility has
been designed for the training of physicians and healthcare staff and
realistically recreates the critical situations they will encounter in
their professional lives.
The training takes place in fully equipped medical rooms and is
carried out on modern simulation dummies, in which bodily functions such
as breathing, heart rate and blood pressure can all be measured. The
dummies can even talk, being connected to the microphone of a tutor.
The tutors provide instruction from separate control rooms with audio
and video links. These links also allow recording for later debriefing
sessions.
The AV equipment for the project was supplied by prodyTel
Distribution GmbH, who worked closely with the technical staff at the
university to design a system that delivered all of the scenarios
required.
As training can take place simultaneously with several groups in
eight different locations, flexible and parallel control was needed for
both audio and video with multiple camera positions. The audio and video
content is synchronized and streamed live and recorded. The complex
video streaming is controlled by a REACH system with a REACH CM800 MRS
Powolive Server, used for capturing, streaming and recording for the
eight rooms. The REACH system processes a total of fifteen live video
signals from eight groups of cameras in real time. The audio system
matrix is handled by three Biamp AudiaFLEX CM with two Biamp NPS-1
networkable paging stations and, for ease of operation, the audio and
video for all scenarios is controlled from a CUE touch panel.
Fourteen Community D SERIES DS5 5-inch, two-way, high quality surface
mount loudspeakers provide the audio in both the medical and control
rooms. The DS5’s were chosen for their high intelligibility and natural
voice quality, while their compact dimension and integral brackets made
them easy to install.
Dr. med. Dominik Hinzmann, TU München commented, "Our advantage over
other simulation centers is clearly in the large number of parallel
operating rooms and the number of ad hoc scenarios we can create. The
audio quality we have achieved is essential for the reality of each
scenario and in a simulation this is invaluable. prodyTel has most ably
assisted us with the complexity and implementation of the systems.”