You are the doctor, responsible for saving the lives of 50 critically ill patients. Their problems range from gun shot wounds to poisoning. You're their only hope. Can you save them?
All new emergency medical situations await wanna-be doctors in this very tough but entertaining simulation. Kids continue to play doctor while learning about a range of life-threatening emergency room injuries. Poisonings, stab-wounds, pneumonia and other serious conditions are diagnosed and treated. Like the other versions, players start out as medical students and TRY to advance in rank by correctly diagnosing and treating patients. Instruments like the thermometer, blood pressure gauge, pen light, etc., are easier to use than before. You just click on one and drag it over the appropriate body part. It is also possible to order sets of x-rays or take samples of blood and review them in a lab. On the whole, this version of Emergency Room is much easier to use than the last and contains excellent graphics, a very responsive design and a better delineated sequence of play. It also contains three automatically adjusting difficulty levels, but unfortunately, none of these are easy. The program's problems are still significant, as the help necessary for players to succeed is missing, and the highly critical and discouraging advice doled out by doctors simply isn't enough. Step by step instruction on the first few plays would have been welcome. Diagnosis and treatment are still largely based on trial and error. Teen and adult testers were enthusiastic at first, but only the most persistent had any success.
Teaches: science, anatomy, medicine, first aid, health
Age Range: 12-up Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue --