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Journal of Emergency Medical Services
You're responding to a reported cardiac arrest. Dispatch has advised that a 33-year-old male collapsed while moving a ladder outside. Initial reports from bystanders indicate the patient isn't breathing.
Dispatch is trying to give CPR instructions to the caller but is having a difficult time hearing them over the background noise. The closest emergency response unit is 2 minutes away, and the ALS unit is approximately 5 minutes away.
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HCP Live
According to data recently published in the Annals of Family Medicine, the need for diversity training is strong within the medical community - particularly among primary care physicians. Research found that patients in socioeconomically deprived areas perceived their primary care physicians as less empathetic, and physicians displayed verbal and nonverbal behaviors deemed as less patient-centered.
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By Chelsea Adams
 Advances in medical care and more end-of-life outpatient options have resulted in a sharp decline in emergency room deaths in the last 15 years, according to a new study published in the July edition of Health Affairs. Researchers found a 48 percent drop in adult deaths in ERs between 1997 and 2011. There's no clear-cut reason for the decrease, leading researchers to cite several reasons for the results.
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Journal of Emergency Medical Services
Darren Braude, M.D., EMT-P, professor of emergency medicine at University of New Mexico, recently observed EMS crews preloading their endotracheal tubes onto the bougie with resulting difficulties. In this video training update, Braude illustrates the potential problems with this technique and his suggestions for proper bougie use.
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Healthcare Finance News
The healthcare industry continues to drive job growth in the United States, contributing 39,000 of the 287,000 total jobs employers added to the economy in June, the Department of Labor announced.
The June numbers are the latest in what's been consistent growth for the sector for several months. In May, healthcare businesses added 46,000 jobs to the economy, and in April the industry contributed 44,000 jobs.
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Mount Desert Islander
Paramedics and nurses participated in a training event in June using life-sized mannequins called human patient simulators. The patient simulators look a little like the dummies often used in CPR trainings, but they are much more sophisticated. The program is owned by Maine EMS and operated by Lifeflight of Maine. “We can replicate almost every response that the human person can produce,” Kyle Santosuosso of Lifeflight said.
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Blended Learning with vSim® for Nursing and Scenarios from the National League for Nursing.
When students experience the same patient encounter through different technologies, it allows them to reinforce their knowledge and gradually build confidence and competence.
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Nursing Times
Nurses and other mental healthcare professionals in London are now able to boost their communications skills using a new simulation suite – one of the first available in such a setting. Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust has become one of the first mental health providers in England to open a simulation suite to support clinical staff develop their skills for communicating with patients, including in sensitive situations.
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Medical Economics
In an era dominated by mobile devices, it has become apparent that many consumers — especially young people — are not interested in visiting web portals and don’t use email much or at all. Instead, they are use texting for most communications.
So if doctors and/or practices want to communicate with their patients between visits, they might consider texting them, at least as a supplementary channel to secure messaging on web portals.
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WBUR
Fourteen young men and women shift their chairs toward a screen on a conference room wall at Boston Medical Center. As the video begins, a resident in green scrubs walks into an exam room and greets a man slumped on the edge of a hospital bed. The patient has a throbbing headache. He says he comes to the ER with the same problem about every two months. He doesn't have any medication for headaches, but he does have a prescription for his high blood pressure.
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Motherboard
In the event of a c-section, if a robot suggested who should perform it, would you listen? Ninety percent of the time, nurses and physicians did. A robot programmed by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should perform caesarian sections. The team from CSAIL thinks robots are most effective in helping with one of the most "complex" tasks in the labor ward of the hospital: scheduling.
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Simulation now includes the same patient monitors used in clinical practice. Simply connect the VitalsBridge with your manikin and any clinical patient monitor and your participants can interact with the same patient monitors used in their clinical practice. It works with Standardized patients too! Learn more now or call 801-484-3820.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The days of operating on female pigs are over for obstetrics and gynecology residents at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The 24 doctors in the four-year program will practice surgeries on a virtual reality system beginning later this summer. Rush and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are splitting the $12,000 cost of the training module, which is expected to be in place in August.
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