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Society for Academic Emergency Medicine via ScienceDaily
Training on the synthetic training model or live-tissue model does not result in a difference in subsequent performance for five of the seven critical procedures examined: junctional hemorrhage wound packing, tourniquet, chest seal, nasopharyngeal airway and needle thoracostomy. That is the primary finding of a study reported in the Proceedings of the 2017 AEM Consensus Conference, to be published in the February 2018 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine.
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FierceHealthcare
Armed guards at a St. Louis hospital shot and killed a knife-wielding patient in January, and the incident has reignited the contentious debate on whether such guards belong in hospitals.
At Barnes-Jewish Hospital, guards shot a patient after he muscled his way out of a treatment room and pulled out two knives, which he refused to drop, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The man was suicidal, police said, though the reason he was being treated at the hospital was not released.
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Medscape
Interest in integrating the arts and humanities into medical education is not new. Several programs around the country now either offer or require medical students to take classes in the arts or humanities to help foster skills that are essential to good clinical care, including observation, critical thinking, and empathy. To date, however, few studies have formally assessed the effect of such training on specific clinical skills. Now, a randomized controlled study published in the January issue of Ophthalmology does just that.
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University of Alberta via ScienceDaily
New technology is bringing the power of augmented reality into clinical practice.
The system, called ProjectDR, allows medical images such as CT scans and MRI data to be displayed directly on a patient's body in a way that moves as the patient does.
"We wanted to create a system that would show clinicians a patient's internal anatomy within the context of the body," explained Ian Watts, a computing science graduate student and the developer of ProjectDR.
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Brock University via Medical Xpress
As comedian Jerry Seinfeld says about doctor's office waiting rooms: "There's no chance of not waiting because they call it the waiting room. They're going to use it." In two separate studies that included data from more than 650 patients, researchers from Brock University discovered that around 50 percent of doctor's appointments start late. Most often, it was because the physician was running late, rather than the patients.
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Laerdal Medical
At some point in your simulation career you are bound to find yourself having to justify a large investment in simulation technology. And, someone controlling your budget will likely ask, “What’s your Return on Investment, the ROI?” This article outlines seven steps you can follow to take the initiative in that discussion. You’ll see that you don’t have to be a CFO to speak ROI. Read more.
Moultrie News
When learning how to treat patients, nursing cadets and students at The Citadel now have the ability to become proficient at inserting needles, checking vital signs, and even responding to heart attack or stroke symptoms before they begin to help treat live human patients. The Swain Department of Nursing at the college has a six-bed, high-tech human simulation lab. The 2,000-square-foot lab features five adult manikins and one pediatric-sized simulator that replicate patient condition scenarios ranging from mild to acute.
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New Sentinel Town™ is a rural community simulation inspired by the award-winning Sentinel City®. Designed by nurse educators, it provides students with simulated clinical hours and practice experience through completion of various assignments using the rural environment. This simulation comes with multiple complete assignments with AACN Essentials mapping and grading rubrics, as well as additional faculty resources.
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists® and CAE Healthcare bring simulation to you! For the first time, practicing physicians will experience highfidelity scenarios in a virtual environment. This training helps improve performance in the management of anesthesia emergencies and fulfills continuing medical education and MOCA 2.0® Part II and IV requirements.
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Scott E. Rupp
The need for ambulances is not a topic often covered, but it might just be worth taking notice. The future of this industry segment suggests that it's going to be a healthy one. The value of the global ambulance service market was estimated to be worth about $22.5 billion in 2016, but that number is expected to balloon at an annual growth rate of 9.1 percent over the next 10 years.
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EMS1.com
Many EMS agencies realize that new employees, whether new graduates of preservice paramedic programs or employees with experience in other organizations, are not fully prepared to climb into an ambulance and head out to serve the community. New graduates of an excellent preservice paramedic school with an “exceeds expectations” clinical program and field internship have little or no knowledge of an agency’s internal processes, procedures, culture and values. All are important to the success of the employee and the agency.
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American Medical Association
Seeing things from the patient’s perspective can — in some instances — involve not seeing, not hearing and not feeling. That’s what fourth-year medical students at the University of Florida College of Medicine are discovering, with the aid of simulation technology.
During their geriatric rotations, Florida medical students are experiencing the Virtual Dementia Tour, a product that uses sensory tools to simulate the symptoms of patients suffering from the condition. The experience helps students understand the scope and impact of this issue.
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Let your student be the doctor with Discourse’s Virtual Patient. Our online cases allow medical students to assess patients, make diagnoses and exercise clinical decision making in a risk-free environment. As students order x-rays, lab tests and care for patients, we provide educators with in-depth performance reports. Learn More!
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OtoSim Mobile™ is a complete otoscopy skills trainer, on-the-go. It was developed by clinical otology educators with over 50 years of combined medical educational experience. Learn more at OtoSim.com
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WESA-FM
No one masters a skill without mistakes, but when you’re a healthcare provider, errors can be deadly.
In 2016, the National Academy of Sciences found that every year up to 30,000 civilian and military deaths of trauma patients could be prevented if the injured people had received optimal care.
A new video game developed by a critical care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh aims to help emergency medicine physicians build trauma expertize in a low-stakes environment.
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CIO Review
Healthcare has seen tremendous growth in the use of technology. The latest technology, which is swiftly garnering interest, is wearable technology – a concept that was not considered until recently, and its benefits are many. It negates the need to be physically present to monitor patients, especially those not susceptible to major illnesses but still requiring to be tracked constantly, reducing the number of patients who need to be actively tracked without jeopardizing them.
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