The University of Mobile’s College of Health Professions will bring Athena, a CAE high-fidelity female patient simulator to its Center for Excellence in Healthcare in Alabama, with the help of a $50,000 grant from The Crampton Trust. Athena is a wireless and tetherless manikin for realistic simulation training for healthcare...
by Medical Training Magazine Publisher Andy Smith Medical Training Magazine exhibited at our 7th IMSH event in Los Angeles two weeks ago and our team can now give our considered view of the event and state of our industry. With 250 booths and 108 exhibitors listed, 2541 attendees and more...
HALO-Flight, Inc. a Helicopter Air Ambulance service in South Texas, is taking EMS training to new levels. HALO-Flight’s EMS Training Academy provides initial EMR, EMT and Advanced EMT courses. in small classes to students, allowing students to receive individualized attention from instructors. HALO-Flight’s EMS Training Academy’s goals and objectives are...
Researchers in NSW and the University of South Australia found opioid prescription errors are higher than previously reported in other healthcare settings, according to a paper from the British Medical Journal Supportive and Palliative Care. The two-leading types of medication errors are missed doses and wrong doses. The study found...
3D Systems entered an exclusive distribution partnership with Stryker for VSP® (Virtual Surgical Planning) and anatomical models for the craniomaxillofacial specialty. 3D Systems says this partnership will drive the availability of personalized surgical planning and techniques to healthcare professionals – saving both surgeons and patients hours in the operating room.
3D Systems is demonstrating the MentorLearn Cloud-Based Simulation Management System on mobile devices such as mobile phones and personal tablets for the first time at IMSH (International Meeting of Simulation in Healthcare) 2018. MentorLearn provides online access to the Simbionix simulators, and lets educators perform administrative tasks. Its library of...
Laerdal Medical launched two new infant simulators, SimNewB® and SimBaby™ at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) conference in Los Angeles, California. SimNewB® is a neonatal simulator developed in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to meet the specific learning objectives specified by the Neonatal Resuscitation...
CAE Healthcare released what the company says is the first augmented reality childbirth simulator with integrated mother-baby physiology – the CAE LucinaAR with Microsoft HoloLens – at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) in Los Angeles, California. With this new simulator, clinical teams and learners will be able...
Every year, millions of Americans opt for surgeries, tests and other procedures that might not improve their health — and could even undermine it. To help reverse this wasteful, often harmful trend, the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine) Foundation and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation are supporting a new initiative...
The Center for Nursing Education at Ohio University Southern in Ironton, Ohio received a Laerdal pediatric simulator that will help the school train nurses in more simulated scenarios of sick children who need emergent care – such as this one: a child, showing symptoms of illness, lies on a hospital...