Local Healthcare Students Make Life or Death Decisions as They Become Doctors for a Day During Emergency Medical Simulation.

Daytona Beach Community College Students Rally Together to Save the Life of a Human Patient Simulator at World's Largest Medical/Education Simulation Conference

L-3 Communications:

WHO:   A select group of Daytona Beach Community College paramedic,
       nursing and respiratory students...

WHAT:  ... will don medical scrubs and become doctors, nurses,
       respiratory therapists and paramedics for a day as they teamup
       to save the "life" of the world's most advanced human patient
       simulator during an interactive teaching exercise at the
       world's largest medical simulation conference, hosted by
       Sarasota-based METI.

       With hundreds of medical and educational experts looking on,
       students will discover the "patient" - a life-size, living and
       breathing human patient simulator -- in the hotel parking lot
       and begin diagnosing and treating the ailing individual,
       transferring him to a simulated emergency room for further
       treatment, all the while dealing with unexpected and
       potentially life-threatening ailments that pop up.

       Will the patient live or die? Regardless of the outcome,
       following the exercise, interviews will be available with
       students as well as with Lou Oberndorf, president and CEO of
       METI, the leading developer of human patient simulators and
       host of the HSPN conference, which features hundreds of
       hands-on workshops geared to teach attendees how to incorporate
       simulation into healthcare education to enhance medical
       learning and patient safety. A division of L-3 Communications,
       METI, headquartered in Sarasota, is the world's leading
       supplier of human patient and surgical simulators, as well as
       related educational products.

WHEN:  Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 1:30 PM sharp

WHERE: HSPN Conference
       The Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay
       Audubon Ballrooms A,B,C, (First Floor Conference Area)
       2900 Bayport Drive
       Tampa, Florida

MORE:  The HSPN Conference is the world's largest annual gathering of
       nurses, physicians, healthcare executives, paramedics and
       military personnel where creating better learning opportunities
       through simulation is the goal and sharing information is the
       buzz. HSPN will feature over 100 workshops where users can
       learn some of the best practices incorporating simulation into
       healthcare education.

       METI simulators are designed to simulate various medical
       scenarios including effects from weapons of mass destruction,
       bio-terrorism and everyday conditions and injuries. Hardware
       and software enable METI patient simulators to exhibit hundreds
       of medical scenarios while accurately and independently
       recognizing and responding to medical treatment and medication.
       METI is a division of L-3 Communications, a leading provider of
       Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems,
       secure communications systems, aircraft modernization, training
       and government services.