Quinnipiac University is receiving a $70,341 grant to construct and develop a fault simulator anesthesia workstation that will be used by students in the school’s new graduate anesthesiologist assistant program.
The workstation will be used in the two state-of-the-art operating rooms in the schools Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and be capable of simulating problems that may occur when delivering anesthesia care to patients undergoing surgery.
The grant was provided by the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority.
Quinnipiac’s anesthesiologist assistant program, which has been approved by the state, will start classes in May 2013. Anesthesiologist assistants are members of the anesthesia care team who may have responsibility for as many as four operating rooms, each with an anesthetist caring for a patient.
