Developing the 'ouch-o-meter' to teach safe and effective use of pressure for palpation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5024 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 912-917

  Baillie, Sarah ^a   Crossan, Andrew ^b   Forrest, Neil ^a   May, Stephen ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

palpation; pregnancy diagnosis; simulator; Veterinary

Indexed keywords

METRIC SYSTEM; OBSTETRICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLINICAL EXAMINATIONS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCESSES; PALPATION; PREGNANCY DIAGNOSIS; PRESSURE INDICATORS; SIMULATED ENVIRONMENTS; TEACHING AND LEARNINGS; VETERINARY;

TEACHING;

EID: 54249154216     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69057-3_114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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