Something different again, for this Medical Monday, and simulating vomit (both regular, and Upper Gastro-Intestinal Bleed).
We have quite a few scenarios where the patient needs to have been sick. And I did work out a rather good recipe, using NHS-Issue Digestive Biscuits (well, nobody was ever desperate enough to eat the damned things), milk, handwash, teabags and the like. The trouble was, whilst it looked good, and smelt realistically awful, it had downsides. Quite apart from nearly making the medics sick, it was a swine to clean-up. And when it's balanced precariously on an out-of-warranty 100-grand training robot, it can make you somewhat paranoid when sat in the control room.
So, I decided to draw on the experience of making model ponds and rivers, and do some bowls of realistic-looking vomit with resin.
First-off, out with the polymer clay.
Making up some food. Beef, peas, beans, and sweetcorn.
Excuse our old, rather colourful, table-cloth which had been relegated to model making. Working from Home is all the rage isn't it? Bluntly, I needed an oven for the clay, so this is what I did on my Christmas Holidays in 2023...
Spare teeth from one of the adult robots, for realistic chew-marks.
Back at the job, and out with the two-part resin.
Adding some colouring- a mix of the supplied colours, and some acrylic paints.
We also needed some bloody vomit (we get a lot of alcoholics with Upper-G.I bleeds). So it was out with the powdered blood.
Mmmm...
Bit of texture with fake snow, of all things, mixed in.
Two layers poured in and left to set on the stylish terrace garden outside the lab (ok, metal fire escape).
Then the food set inside, and another layer poured to seal it in.
Two bowls done, one large, one child-size. Must have been Thai Curry for lunch that day.
...and two bowls of upper G.I Bleed flavour. Looks nice and realistic for short sims, and acts as a visual clue for diagnosis by the medics, without risking getting slopped everywhere. Lov-er-ly :)
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