Charles Sturt University – Bathurst Campus-Education

Incorporates REACH Recording into leading edge clinical simulation centre

Charles Sturt University has been delivering education and research across inland Australia for over 100 years. From its establishment in 1895, CSU has grown to become one of the largest universities in the country, generating more than $500 million and 5000 jobs for rural and regional communities

each year.

CSU operate 4 faculties; Arts, Business, Education, and Science. Within the faculty of Science, sits the School of Biomedical Sciences, which offer courses in a broad range of health related areas, typically with a focus on hands on

learning and commitment to rural health. Graduates are highly regarded by industry and regularly gain employment before graduation and receive prestigious industry awards.

Clinical Simulation Centre

In February 2012, CSU unveiled its new $2.8 million regional inter-professional clinical simulation centre located at their Bathurst campus in NSW. The centre has been primarily designed to enhance the skills and work-readiness of the

University's graduates in its Nursing and Paramedic programs, using a facility that supports contemporary practice based learning.

ceiling microphones and speakers, wall mounted HD displays and ceiling mounted projectors. The system spans multiple teaching spaces and breakout and scenario rooms, to simulate various medical scenarios for the training of

paramedics and nurses.

How it works

Three operators located in the central control room can simultaneously control, record, and stream three different medical simulations. A map of the building is displayed on the AMX control system touch panel in front of each

operator, with the different building areas such as breakout and scenario rooms, nominated as zones. From here, the operators are able to select from the multiple available zones to create their simulation area of operation. The large display in front of each operator acts as a virtual video wall that presents combined live picture-in-picture images from the HD camera feeds located in each room, as well as the diagnostic monitor feed from the Sim Man. Up to 6 images can be displayed at one time. Via the AMX touch panel, operators are able to select which images to send to the REACH system to simultaneously record and/or live stream.

The solution

The simulation centre uses a server based REACH Recording and Streaming solution to capture images and sound in conjunction with HD pan tilt zoom cameras,