BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a medical technology company, launched its quality improvement program, BD "Power in Prevention" to help minimize surgical infections this week at the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) annual conference in Boston. The BD Power in Prevention program leverages critical insights from the company's Focus...
More and more universities and hospitals are investing in ways to improve hands-on training and patient safety. Medical simulation facilities offer students the experience and training that can’t always be taught in a classroom. This is the reason behind The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s decision to invest in...
Some of the most important, and under-facilitated, medical facilities in the country are those in rural areas. While hospitals in the bigger cities get the attention and funding, the rural hospitals are tasked with the care of a much wider area. Because these rural hospitals are few and far between,...
SimGHOSTS 2017 Symposium USA is almost here! There is just about 1 week left for early-bird pricing for the 7th annual hands-on training event in healthcare simulation. Register by July 1st and save big on attending one of the biggest training events of the year. The event will take place at...
Modern medicine is always evolving. There is new research being conducted and new methods of treatment being formulated every year, which means what worked in the past isn’t always the best method of doing something in the future.
There are few industries that aren’t made better with access to better technology. Technology allows for things to move faster, smoother and can exponentially increase production. Simulation and training is no exception to this rule. As technology increases, so do the opportunities to mimic real-life situations and gather data on...
Operative Experience, a developer of high-fidelity human patient simulators, launched RealMom™, a full-body childbirth simulator designed to revolutionize the way clinicians and practitioners develop proficiency in labor and delivery procedures. Leapfrogging today’s hard-plastic birthing manikins, the company says, “RealMom is the most natural and realistic childbirth simulator ever created,” featuring...
The Sage Colleges has received a $100,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation for the planned expansion of the Nursing and Health Sciences Simulation Lab located on the Russell Sage College campus. According to a news release from the college, the money will help to fund the addition of...
Have you ever trained in a medical simulation lab and felt the stiff mannequins and repetitive scenarios were outdated? Ryan Ribeira, an Emergency Medicine resident physician, wants to change this. He is the CEO of SimX, a Silicon Valley-startup that aims to bring virtual reality and augmented reality to medical training. I...