Trauma Center Second Opinion Wii

This has nothing to do with respiratory therapy but this might be a nice pasttime for all you RT people who want a little excitement. Recently I purchased a Nintendo Wii and the first game I bought was Trauma Center.

The game is great for med students because it focuses on being a Surgeon and operating. Everything in the game is wayyy too fake to be on real life. I don’t want to spoil the game but at some point you have to operate on an airplane and the room is suppose to be “sterile”. How fake is that? There is another point where you operate in the middle of a dark highway. It is way to fake but the game itself isn’t too bad. Just think about how hollywood makes people with gunshot wounds walk around for about half the time in the movie. Not even a regular person can do that.

Lets talk about the game play. There is a lot of medical terminology and some Charting. The chart is just the patients age and weight etc..etc. Nothing much and you get objectives to do. Like perform a lobectomy . There is a mission where you have to take care of a patients lung and it becomes interesting. There is also a mission where you have to inject some vasoconstriction drug to do a kidney transplant. Intersting isn’t it?

There is also pulse rate on evey patient and basically like in real life it determines life and death. If you reach 0 then you lose and unlike real life you have a reset button haha. There is also a drug that you can inject to make pulse higher. The game itself sounds really fun because it is, if you’re into the medical terminology.

Controls are great and you use the Wiimote to make the incision or put a bandage. 8/10

Sound : The only sound is the pulse rate LOL. I would rate sound 1/10

Gameplay : 8/10

Replay value : 7/10 ( you can always go back and get a higher score)

Worth Buying? YES if you actually have time haha….

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