U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson sponsored a Stop the Bleed® training session for Congressional staff this week where surgeon members of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) instructed more than 75 people on how to stop potentially life-threatening bleeding in an injured person, as part of the Stop the Bleed national...
Medical Training Magazine focuses on best practices in medical training, so we encourage you to join the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) in celebrating HRM Week, this week: June 18-22, 2018. Remember, your biggest risk is a poorly trained staff and you can find ways to update your training...
Beyeonics Surgical, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems that develops Beyeonics develops surgical training visualization technologies, raised $11.5 million expand its product development to include additional surgical applications and accelerate commercialization that improves a surgeon's efficiency and enhances patient safety and surgical outcomes. Beyeonics' first clinically tested system - Clarity™ Bionic...
McGill University is partnering with CAE Healthcare, and DePuy Synthes Products, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, to develop a Virtual Reality (VR) platform to train orthopedic and neurosurgeons in advanced spinal surgery techniques. The new platform will leverage Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) technology and Finite Element...
MedaPhor Group, an ultrasound software and simulation company, says that ScanTrainer, its OBGYN and General Medical simulator training platform has been installed at a new Ultrasound Training Academy at Central Middlesex Hospital in London, United Kingdom. The London North West Healthcare NHS (National Health Service) Trust (LNWH) chose ScanTrainer for...
General Electric's Healthcare business is introducing interactive and customizable training options for Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) professionals. With 25 percent of the HTM population expected to retire over the next 10 years, hospitals and healthcare systems face an increasing challenge to train the next generation. The options enabled by the...
TraumaFX, a division of Kforce Government Solutions (KGS) and a provider of human and canine medical training simulators, released the canine medical simulator K9 Diesel. Named in memory of the heroic canine who died in the line of duty following the 2015 Paris terror attacks, K9 Diesel was developed jointly...
3D Systems released the DMP Flex 100 and DMP Dental 100 for metal 3D printing and dental applications. Designed to be used for R&D (Research and Development), application development and production, the DMP Flex 100 provides up to twice the throughput compared to 3D Systems' previous entry-level metal 3D printer,...
MedaPhor, an intelligent ultrasound software and simulation company, installed its first BodyWorks Eve, Point of Care ultrasound (PoCUS) simulator, at NYU School of Medicine’s simulation laboratory of the affiliated Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System New York Campus. BodyWorks Eve is a female manikin simulator designed for doctors to...