Hill-Rom, a globally recognized medical technology company, has announced the launch of their newest medical-surgical bed solution, the Hill-Rom® Centrella™ Smart+ bed, dedicated for hospitals which will be available in the U.S and Canada in November. The Centrella Smart+ bed has been designed to allow patient safety and patient satisfaction...
Titan Medical Inc., a medical device company, entered a partnership with Columbia University Medical center for preclinical feasibility and validation studies on Titan Medical’s SPORT Surgical System. Titan will install the system at Columbia’s simulation training facility in New York City early in 2018; it will be the second installation...
UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco have recently been acknowledged for their excellence in nursing as well as their quality of patient care and innovations in professional nursing practice. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) awarded UCSF the prestigious Magnet Recognition designation, the highest level of...
In an attempt to help students develop certain strategies and learn how to take care of both themselves and their patients by, physically and emotionally, the George Washington University School of Nursing has launched a new student support system. Faculty member took notice of how emotionally draining nursing school was...
Dublin, Ireland has just become home to a state-of-the-art €80 million facility for educating and training medical professionals. The Royal College of Surgeons opened this new ten story building on York Street, making it the largest, most modern facility in all of Europe and one of the top five in...
With the mindset of improving their expertise, Doctors at the University of Connecticut are using 3-D printing technology to get hands-on training to practice delicate brain surgery. David Brotmann, a medical physicist, came up with an idea of using 3-D printing technology to practice a procedure to treat strokes, referred...
A recent study from Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, highlights the need for further education among resident physicians in the use of medical cannabis. It found 38% of resident physicians thought medical marijuana was a prescribed substance, while 78% did not know into what category medical...
The very first graduating class from the Navy's Hospital Corps "A" School has begun follow-on training. The school updated their curriculum with a new training regimen under new Navy Surgeon General (SG) Initiative, the Hospital Corpsman (HM) Clinical Trauma Experience Proof of Concept course The HM "A" School implemented the...
The global surgical implant company, RTI Surgical Inc., has recently announced the launch of their Fortilink-C IBF System with TERTAfuse® 3D Technology. The Fortilink-C system will be the first device of the RTI Surgical's devices to incorporate their TETRAfuse 3-D technology. Fortilink-C IBF System with TERTAfuse® 3D Technology "TETRAfuse 3D...
A study that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity found that simulator-trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training. Results of the study, led by Arun Nemani, MS, a PhD candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...