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Fundus Skills and Assessment Trainer
The Fundus Skills and Assessment Trainer features the normal anatomy of the status-post or postpartum female abdomen designed for training fundus assessment and massage skills.
Overview
The Fundus Skills and Assessment Trainer features the normal anatomy of the status-post or post-partum female abdomen designed for training fundus assessment and massage skills.
Product benefits:
- Educationally effective for in-hospital practice of postpartum physical assessment including identification and treatment of normal and abnormal assessment findings
- Flexible module designed for teaching:
- Interventions for excessive postpartum bleeding including fundal massage and prevention of bladder distention
- Accurate visual examination of postpartal blood loss
- Perineal care including interventions for episiotomy and hemorrhoids
Product features:
- Upper thighs articulate for positioning
- Removable skin with umbilicus
- Realistic landmark of the symphysis pubis
- Interchangeable firm contracted and "boggy" uteri
- Approximately a 3" diameter ball to simulate a firm, well contracted uterus
- Approximately a 4" diameter ball to simulate a "boggy" uterus that has not contracted
- Fundus offset secondary to bladder distention
- Female Genitalia
- Elongated with swelling to the clitoral area
- Vaginal orifice is more visible and opened
- Labium minus more flapped to expose the vaginal canal
- 2nd-degree midline episiotomy
- Anal hemorrhoids visible
- Use of peri pads and simulated blood allows for representation of blood loss after birth for practice of visual estimation skills
