Deep inside Wellington Regional Hospital, there are tubs full of kombucha brewing away.
It's not for any direct health and wellness benefit. The fermented drink is being brewed for its slimy, gelatinous by-product known as a scoby.
The hospital's anaesthesia department is using dried scoby as replica human tissue for training in Cant Incubate, Can't Oxygenate, also known as CICO procedures.
Melita Macdonald is the manager of Wellington Regional Hospital's simulation service and she joins Emile Donovan.
(From left) Anaesthetists Jeremy Young and Raj Palepu with Melita Macdonald, the manager of Wellington Regional Hospital’s simulation service. Photo: Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand
