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By David Escobar
 The 3-D printing movement has been featured in countless articles and media describing the changes it will bring to manufacturing, technology and the world. But what can we expect to see in the medical simulation community? Currently, the majority of medical simulation training devices are manufactured with traditional methods that meet the general objective of training healthcare providers. Yet this current simulation equipment lacks realism.
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MIT Technology Review
Dhruv Jain wants to take you to the bottom of the sea so you can understand his life a little bit better. An avid diver and a graduate student in MIT’s Living Mobile Lab, Jain is the creator of Amphibian — a virtual reality simulator that immerses users in nearly every aspect of a real scuba dive, except the water. It may sound as though Jain is simply trying to re-create what it’s like to go diving. But as much as Amphibian focuses on matching that sensory experience, his true goal is actually more complicated.
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Kaiser Health News via EMSWorld
Within two weeks of Joyce Oyler’s discharge from the hospital, sores developed in her mouth and throat, and blood began seeping from her nose and bowels.
Her daughter traced the source to the medicine bottles in Oyler’s home in St. Joseph, Missouri. One drug that keeps heart patients like Oyler from retaining fluids was missing. In its place was a toxic drug with a similar name but different purpose, primarily to treat cancer and severe arthritis. The label said to take it daily.
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EMSWorld
Simulation-based training can be extremely effective for EMS personnel, but only if the training is done by knowledgeable faculty, using educational scenarios that reflect and are relevant to real-life EMS situations.
Unfortunately many simulation-based training courses fall short of what they could be delivering. That's the takeaway from the National Association of EMS Educators from the SUPER study and its subsequent vision paper.
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The Associated Press via The Columbian
The leadership at the University of Michigan’s nursing school says there is value in students making mistakes while treating patients.
And when the patients aren’t real, that’s even better.
The Ann Arbor school’s new state-of-the-art Clinical Learning Center building features six simulation rooms that house high-fidelity mannequins capable of bleeding, vomiting and even giving birth — just like real patients. Alexandra Noga, a junior from suburban Detroit, said it’s “somewhat intimidating the things that some of these mannequins can do.”
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In-Training
Second-year medical student Rae Dong writes, "In the fall of my first year, barely a week into my new life as a medical student, I met an old friend from college who had recently started her residency in New York. It was still warm enough for ice cream, and we sat with our dripping cereal milk cones in Central Park — it had been four years since we last saw each other in college. She seemed upbeat and largely caught up on sleep after finishing her rough rotation the previous week. 'How’s life?' I asked generically."
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Boston Business Journal
At Boston Children’s Hospital, simulation has been used to train doctors in clinical rooms near patients and taking up space in operating rooms. Now, it's opening a simulated clinical practice environment for parents and entrepreneurs as well. The world-renowned pediatric hospital opened a $12 million pediatric Simulation Center recently, consisting of a 4,800-square-foot space on the 18th floor of Boston’s Center for Life Sciences building and another 3,500 square feet of space for inventors and engineers at the corner of Longwood and Brookline avenues.
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Journal of Emergency Medical Services
The nature of military operations dictates the need for immediate, professional healthcare that's available globally at any time. When that needed care is more extreme, the 59th Medical Wings Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation team stands ready. A mission exclusive to the wing, headquartered at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, the ECMO team is bedded down at the San Antonio Military Medical Center on nearby Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.
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U.S. News & World Report
You're seeing a health professional, but as a patient, you can sense something's off in the clinical encounter. It's clear that your doctor, nurse or therapist is eager to cut the visit short. He or she fails to make eye contact and seems impatient or on edge. When you try to describe your pain or trauma, instead of leaning in to listen more deeply, the provider keeps the conversation breezy. If anything, you find yourself hearing about his or her professional woes or even personal problems at home.
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Surgeons use Electromagnetic and Optical Tracking technologies for real-time tool navigation – shouldn’t their training simulators do the same? Build the next generation of simulator with the 3D tracking technology trusted in real-world surgical navigation systems. DISCOVER the benefits of customizable tracking technology integration today: email msci@ndigital.com or call 1-877-634-6340.
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Journal of Emergency Medical Services
Practicing medicine is an art, but for one firefighter/paramedic, practicing art is also medicine.
Daniel Sundhal uses art to work through the emotional tolls of a career in EMS, and he's helped countless others along the way. His new book "Portraits of an Emergency" is a collection of gripping images that show the emotional aftermath of a responder in an emergency's wake.
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Free seats are available! Join us individually or with a team to experience Friday Night at the ER first-hand and to learn best practices for its successful use. Experienced and first-time players are welcome. Event will be held April 7-8 in Denver, CO.
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By Joan Spitrey
 Popular consumer reporter John Stossel recently wrote an opinion piece on the lack of customer service he received while in the hospital. He was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, for which he was admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Although Stossel acknowledged his medical care was excellent, he could not help but notice the lack of customer care that consumers have grown to expect. He brought up some key issues healthcare workers have been navigating for years.
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