Working to ensure children receive appropriate pediatric care for their injuries, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) updated its policy statement, “Management of Pediatric Trauma,” online and in the August 2016 issue of Pediatrics. The report offers 15 updated recommendations, such as children’s needs should be part of trauma systems...

By Andy Smith, Publisher of HealthcareTrainingandEducation.com and Medical Training Magazine The Times of London printed an editorial early this year by Professor, The Lord Darzi, on ‘Never Events’ – those catastrophic healthcare errors that are deemed should ‘Never’ occur but of course still do and with an annoying persistence. As with all features...

HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak provides the second in a series of insights from simulation & training industry insiders and a simulation center, on the challenges and opportunities in managing the life cycles of their learning technologies and systems. Stephanie Alwais, the chief operating officer at Vascular Simulations, LLC, summarized the...

This year Healthcare Simulation South Carolina (HSSC) held their annual meeting in conjunction with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare’s, (SSIH) regional Sim Ops meeting at the Greenville Healthcare Simulation Center on July 21-22, 2016. Healthcare Simulation South Carolina is a collaborative of healthcare simulation centers throughout South Carolina and is...

By Andy Smith, Publisher of HealthcareTrainingandEducation.com and Medical Training Magazine Medical Training Magazine (formerly MEdSim) has long advocated the creation of a just culture for healthcare, similar to that of the airline industries ‘no fault found’ system, as the basis of long term improvement in the way healthcare is designed...

Study results presented at the 2016 ACS NSQIP Conference reveal how one Canadian hospital safety team implemented strategies to reduce the number of door openings during operations. A Canadian hospital safety team determined there was too much traffic in and out of the operating room (OR) during total joint replacement...

by Judith Riess, Editor of Medical Training Magazine It was my privilege to have a tour of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. Dr. Jerry Youkey, Dean, and USC Associate Provost of Health Sciences and Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs kindly briefed me on the school’s...

HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak highlights the efforts of the simulation and training industry, and healthcare learning audiences to more effectively integrate debriefing into training scenarios and other instruction.  Since the mid-1990s, this author has watched the military and civil aviation sectors refine their efforts to record and evaluate efforts by...

The American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates (HoD) approved a resolution introduced by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and other medical societies to train more professional first responders (i.e., police and firefighters) and civilians as immediate responders in the essential techniques of bleeding control and to place bleeding...

The Patient Safety Movement mid year planning meeting was held on June 10, 2016 at Fairfax Inova Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia. Joe Kiani, founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, welcomed all to the meeting and reiterated the objectives and goals of the movement and what we were to...