Picture this: At every step of a patient’s trip through the hospital, a virtual assistant awaits, ready to answer questions, pull up medical records — or snap photos during surgery. Hospital staff and patients walked through that futuristic hospital scenario one recent afternoon at a new simulation center at Boston...
Military surgeons face a unique challenge in that they serve as a “jack-of-all-trades” in an austere environment while deployed, only to return home to the expectation that they will compete with the standards of civilian surgical care, which has become increasingly subspecialized and highly dependent on minimally invasive technology. To...
The Penn College of Technology opened a new Nursing Education Center that has seven learning labs and 10 dedicated classrooms – and is serving more than 350 students enrolled in nursing majors at the school. The expanded nursing school facilities allowed the college to accept more students into its nursing...
The 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (AES) at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois has a new Cargo Compartment Trainer (CCT) that gives AE crew members a realistic simulated clinical experience to develop their clinical abilities and their comfort level with operational missions in an environment that mimics an aircraft they...
An app developed by a team of University of Tennessee instructors to teach student nurses in monitoring laboring mothers and their babies is so successful, it is now available on the iTunes App Store for iPads. The Simulated Electronic Fetal Monitor app teaches students how to interpret the data generated...
Limbs & Things introduced a Cesarean Section (C-Section) Module for its PROMPT Flex Birthing Simulator. The new module has two elements. The first consists of an anatomically correct, replaceable surgical pad with eight layers, plus the female bladder. This part of the module aids highly realistic training in transverse incisions...
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a global initiative of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, is accepting applications for its ‘Innovation Showcases’ competition through May 27. The contest will give 20 healthcare innovators a chance to demonstrate their work in front of more than 1,000...
A team of patient safety experts at Johns Hopkins say more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S., according to the results of their study published in the BMJ on May 3. The team says after analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year...
Boston Children’s Hospital opened a 4,000-square-foot, $12 million expanded pediatric Simulation (SIM) Center where doctors, nurses and other staff can rehearse tough medical situations or practice tricky or rare procedures in a clinical setting that looks and feels real. Families will also use the facility that incorporates real medical equipment,...
3D Systems collaborated with the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) to develop a standardized curriculum for Bronchoscopy on the Simbionix BRONCH Mentor™ virtual reality training simulator. The CHEST Standardized Curriculum Module for Essential Bronchoscopic Skills and Diagnostic Bronchoscopy helps users learn and master basic skills and clinical knowledge, and...