KNOXVILLE--No one can deny that open-heart surgery, where the heart is exposed and the blood is made to bypass it, is one of the most invasive of all medical procedures. Nearly a third of all patients undergoing heart surgery experience kidney failure, yet little is known about why kidney injury...

During the Emergency Nurses Association's annual meeting in October at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, 40 nurses and 100 actor volunteers simulated a mass casualty terrorist attack before 3,000 people. The association had no way of knowing that a nearby nightclub just eight months later and 10...

The medical simulation centre at NTNU was referred to as a “blueprint for the future of medical simulation” when Caverion Norway, the team behind the smart solution, recently won first place in two categories at the Crestron Integration Awards. Medical simulation is a teaching method that uses an advanced computer-controlled...

For many people, our concept of medical emergency procedures is informed by a lifetime of consuming television medical dramas. For anesthetists and medical staff, though, the emergency sim ward offers the most realistic insight into an emergency procedure, as Teresa Crea discovers. Medical simulation—the re-enactment of a medical event—often makes...

Middle school and high school students are getting an opportunity to test the water of medical professions this week at the third annual Health Career Camp at Fort Lewis College and around Durango. The event, coordinated by the Southwest Colorado Area Health Education Center, provides the 27 students a chance to...

A pre-operative patient education program involving physics has approximately halved the rate of post-operative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing major elective surgery. Known as ERAS+, the multidisciplinary patient education programme was introduced at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust in September 2014. It followed an audit during the previous year. This...

“Some say space is the final frontier, but I believe that the brain is the ultimate frontier” says Dr. Ryan Darcy, Brentwood '91, an acclaimed neuroscientist and entrepreneur who is currently leading a team of talented biomedical engineers, physicists, and other scientists at one of the foremost labs and...

A medical simulator can be as simple as a simulated body part, say an arm, or as complex as a simulated human patient—these educational devices are used in hospitals, universities, and medical simulation centers. Designed to train all levels of health-care workers, medical simulation centers provide high-quality, realistic patient experiences—just...

ASHLAND, Ohio – Two members of Ashland University’s Schar College of Nursing and Health Sciences were recipients of the 2016 BAYADA Award for Innovation in Healthcare Education. Since they were established in 2004, the BAYADA Awards have recognized nurses for their ideas enhancing technological innovation in nursing education and practice.

In a major boost to healthcare services in Nagaland, a laparoscopic training centre recognized by Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Society of India ( FOGSI) was formally inaugurated here at Nikos Hospital and Research Centre (NHRC) on Sunday. The launching of the laparoscopic training centre coincided with the happy tidings...