The Eagle simulator for training anaesthesia students at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. Etching with lithograph by Virgina Powell, 2000.

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<p>Beyond a glass screen is a figure on a bed: it is a plastic dummy with a lifelike male human face, containing computer software, the Eagle Simulator. His thorax rises and falls as he breathes. He contains software for reacting to anaesthetic interventions by medical students. The intervention equipment is on the far side of the glass screen and the results are shown on the computer on the near side of the screen. The microphone allows the professor to say "For heavens sake don't do that or he'll have a heart attack and we'll have to start all over again!". The red-stained cloth on the bed is carefully stained by the anaesthesia staff with red food-colouring to give a blood-like appearance.  In the distance, a football ground.  Called by the artist "Eagle Simulator in the setting sun"</p>

The Eagle simulator for training anaesthesia students at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. Etching with lithograph by Virgina Powell, 2000.

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