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AirMed & Rescue Magazine
Simulation of a critical care scenario in a high-fidelity helicopter flight simulator really can provide a realistic helicopter transport experience and create physiological and psychological stress for participants, according to an article published on the Air Medical Journal website on 30 March. The authors, from MetroHealth System and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in Cleveland, Ohio, US, conducted a study in order to determine if a helicopter flight simulator provides a useful educational platform by creating experiences similar to those encountered by actual flight nurses.
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3DPrint.com
Dr. Matthew Bramlet discovered 3-D printing back in 2009, and not long after that the pediatric cardiologist was 3-D printing his first heart model. Amazed at the way the patient-specific model changed the course of the surgery, Bramlet was sold on the technology for good. He decided to begin building a digital library of heart models, consisting of scans of hearts with a variety of defects, submitted by physicians. Last year, we updated you on Dr. Bramlet’s project, which has since gained several partners and is growing into an open, expanding digital repository called the 3D Heart Library.
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EMS World
Capt. Steve Schultz cringed March 30 as he watched a recruit drive an ambulance over a simulated pedestrian. It was the final leg of the Frederick County training facility's emergency driver's course.
"Timmy's going to the trauma center!" Schultz announced with a laugh as he walked over to pick up the chunk of plywood. He placed the wood back up against the row of orange traffic cones, so the stick figure drawn on one side faced the next recruit in line.
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The Eagle
Lexie Valadez wasn't pregnant, but she gave birth to a beautiful baby doll March 30.
"I was a laboring mother today. I had a baby," said the Texas A&M University College of Nursing senior.
Valadez was playing a role in A&M's ninth annual Disaster Day, a mass casualty disaster training exercise that aims to teach students vital skills needed to respond to emergency situations. More than 300 students from A&M's nursing and medical schools, the Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy and the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences participated in the event, and around 400 community members played the role of survivors.
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Scott E. Rupp
Mobile apps in healthcare may finally be taking hold and finding some relevance in the sector, at least in one specific area — breast reconstruction. Specifically, the journal JAMA Surgery reports that access to a mobile app allowed ambulatory breast reconstruction patients to submit photos to their physicians and report information to physicians, resulting in fewer post-surgery follow-up appointments. The mobile follow-up sessions meant that patients and their caregivers could easily engage each other over their devices, establishing an obvious benefit for both the patient and the physician — fewer appointments requiring management for the physician and less time wasted getting to the physician for the patient.
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Pocket Nurse helps thousands of health education programs operate efficiently with an extensive catalog of products that provide everything an educator needs. For more information visit pocketnurse.com, call 1-800-225-1600, or email cs@pocketnurse.com.
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Christina Nava
What do patients experience when they go to your practice? Have you ever looked at online reviews just to see what kind of feedback you've received? If not, maybe now is the time to start.
First impressions can determine whether positive or negative reviews are left online, so it's important to be mindful of the way your practice is being perceived.
Whether it's a simple checkup or seeking treatment for an illness, injury, pain or any other medical condition, people visit the doctor's office for a variety of reasons — most of which are unpleasant. From the countless experiences I've had seeing different medical specialists, one positive one in particular stands out.
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STAT
A little-known federal agency responsible for making health care safer and more efficient has survived 20 years in Washington with a target on its back, but its time may be running out. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has made enemies because it takes a hard look at whether popular — and often expensive — treatments like spinal surgery actually help patients.
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Sentinel City™ is an immersive online educational simulation providing community health nursing students the ability to complete windshield surveys and other assignments digitally, while earning simulated learning clinical hours. It’s easy for course faculty to implement, and is aligned with QSEN, NLN core competencies, and AACN BSN Essentials. |
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Northwest Herald
Emergency medical technician students at McHenry County College in Illinois found a man complaining of back pain March 25.
While they were checking his blood pressure, he said he started feeling dizzy and eventually went into cardiac arrest, or so it appeared. The patient was not actually having a heart attack, as he was acting as part of a simulation training for MCC students.
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Becker's Hospital Review
In a new position paper, the American College of Physicians argues administrative tasks are detrimental to patient care and presents a framework to determine if such tasks can be revised or eliminated.
The paper, "Putting Patients First by Reducing Administrative Tasks in Health Care: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians," was published in Annals of Internal Medicine in March.
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Healthcare Innovation
That fitness device you're wearing on your wrist can bring a hospital or a healthcare organization down. This isn't a doomsday scenario or an Armageddon-type scare tactic, but rather a product design issue.
Nick FitzGerald, Senior Research Fellow, ESET, told Enterprise Innovation in an exclusive email interview that while fitness trackers, smartwatches and other health wearables collect data that allow users or healthcare practitioners to make better decisions based on real-time information, they also provide an easy entry point for cybercriminals to gain easy entry to the hospital network.
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