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The SSH Live Learning Center
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The SSH Live Learning Center is open! More than 50 accredited courses are available. Content is pre-recorded, and available for on-demand viewing whenever you have an Internet connection. SSH members receive two free educational webinars annually. Watch your email for your unique login, password and voucher code.
Transform Simulation Education. Get Certified!
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Are you a healthcare simulation educator with at least two years of experience? Are you committed to continuing your professional development?
Become a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator to demonstrate your specialized knowledge and skills to your institution and the public. Simulation education improves patient safety efforts.
Evolution through Synergy: Healthcare Simulation in Asia-Pacific Regions
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The Asia-Pacific Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (APMSH) is an exclusive learning and networking opportunity for simulation healthcare professionals.
Register today to attend the Asia-Pacific Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (APMSH), Oct. 24-27, Shanghai, China.
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Sims promise 'revolution' in medical training
DefenseNews
Future medical training needs for military and civilian doctors are similar; the list includes virtual patients and cadavers, haptic technology, advanced simulators for high-fidelity operations and patient-specific sims. This was the view presented by retired Col. Richard Satava, senior science adviser for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, during a panel about the dual use of technology in military and civilian arenas at the ITEC 2013 simulation and training conference. Technologies for medical simulation are useful in both fields and could be programmed to teach doctors to treat the victim of a car crash or someone injured in combat.
Civilian medical providers learn military medic trauma care
Watertown Daily Times
The only noises that could be heard in the dark, smoke-filled war zone were gunfire and the faint breaths of wounded soldiers who were assessed and treated by medics.
That training exercise at the post's Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation Training Center in New York showed civilian emergency medical service providers what treatment practices are used in combat, giving the civilian providers ideas on how local protocols could be improved in treating patients.
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Overcome the challenges facing busy teams – bring the portable Mentice VIST®-C endovascular simulator to them. Target Cardiology, Neuro Surgery/IR, Radiology and Vascular Surgery teams all in their own environment. Practice new equipment and techniques, maintain and improve skills and communication while allowing team members to interact in different roles.
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Medical Battalion Training Site trains Oak Grove, Miss., High School students
DVIDS
The Regional Training Institute — Medical Battalion Training Site at Camp Shelby, Miss., Joint Forces Training Center hosted a special training event for a group of Allied Health students from Oak Grove, High School March 5.
EmergyCare teaches new CPR
Kansas First News
Darren Redding spent part of his pounding on the chest of a $25,000 mannequin. Redding was one of more than a dozen Erie, Kan.-area first responders who were learning a new, more effective way of performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation during a training session at EmergyCare. "This type of CPR is a little harder," said Redding, an EmergyCare emergency medical technician. "You're doing more chest compressions before you break." EmergyCare is training all 230 of its first responders in the high-performance method of CPR, which will be mandated in Pennsylvania beginning July 1. CPR is performed on people who suffer cardiac arrest in an effort to keep their heart pumping until normal rhythm is restored.
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Progra-Temp™ is the solution to your Simulated Thermometer needs. Designed by a Nurse for Nurses, the Progra-Temp™ is a perfect edition to your simulation lab. This easy to use simulated thermometer is specifically designed with a Large LCD Display Screen and the ability to program, record and display two different temperatures. Visit www.pocketnurse.com today for more details!
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Using a stoplight system to prioritize patient safety goals
Becker's Healthcare
In an environment as complex as a hospital, patient safety problems can arise every day. Hospitals need a standard system to effectively prioritize these problems and address them appropriately. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill., uses a stoplight system to quickly and effectively respond to each patient safety concern, according to Dr. Michael McKenna, vice president of medical management and CMO of the hospital.
In debate over 'biosimilars,' patient safety must come first
The Baltimore Sun
Abby Bernstein writes, "On average, biologics contain molecules that are a thousand times larger than most regular medicines. That's because they are made from living organisms rather than chemical compounds. Because of this complexity, there's no real way to make a true generic version of a biologic. However, a less expensive copy that's similar enough to treat the same disease can be manufactured. These drugs are called 'biosimilars.'"
STARS bringing mobile ER to Manitoba, Canada
CJOB-680
STARS is rolling out a new mobile emergency room to tour Manitoba, Canada. It's housed in an RV and will be used to train medical personnel in rural communities with hospitals. It will not be used to provide any actual care. The RV contains state of the art talking mannequins that simulate humans who have been hurt or are suffering from illnesses as part of training scenarios.
Readmission simulator could help healthcare staff improve care coordination
MedCity News
You're working in the ER when a patient comes in with severe congestive heart failure. You look up their file and find out they were discharged within the past 25 days. Was there a way this could have been avoided? You need to figure out where the breakdowns occurred in the patient's care so you and your team can make the right decisions to avoid such as fast readmission again. What do you do?
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Virginia doctors, nurses learn new sepsis treatment techniques on high-tech mannequin
MercuryNews.com
Inside a mobile training center at the Palo Alto, Va., Health System, a nurse checked on a endotracheal tube on a high-tech mannequin, hooked up to nearby monitoring systems as it was an actual living patient.
The Medical Simulation Corp. brought the lab to Palo Alto to give the medical staff the opportunity to learn early sepsis detection and treatment techniques on a mannequin that simulates a real patient.
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