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If you've ever thought about submitting an article to the Simulation Spotlight, now is the time. This publication is the weekly online newsletter for SSH. It has a consistently high open rate each week and is sent to more than 18,000 healthcare simulationists around the world. If you're not sure you have something of interest to submit, just take a look around your sim center and consider what kind of changes have been made there in the past few years. This could be the addition of new equipment, more staff, more technology, etc. Let us know what's happening in your neck of the healthcare simulation woods!
If you belong to an SSH Section, SIG or Affinity Group, submit a report on the things your group is doing or has done.
To discuss logistics and submission requirements, please direct inquiries to Simulation Spotlight's editor, Bianca Gibson.
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Kathryn Elliott Pullins
kpullins@ssih.org
HealthLeaders Media
An active shooter incident is something no nurse wishes to experience. Unfortunately, these situations can, and do, happen at healthcare organizations across the country. Bon Secours Richmond Community Hospital, in fact, was on lockdown Wednesday following a threat of a shooting on its campus, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. To prepare emergency department staff to effectively handle these types of incidents, active shooter training and simulations are a must, according to a new practice improvement initiative and study in the Journal of Emergency Nursing.
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HIT Consultant
Biomedical engineering has long been a driver of advances in healthcare. From new technologies to diagnose and treat some of the most complex disease to advances that improve quality of life for everyone, the work taking place in labs around the world right now is likely to change the face of healthcare in both the short- and long-term future. Although there are literally thousands of different projects taking place at this very moment, there are some definite trends taking place in biomedical engineering.
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Harvard Business Review
In August, officials from Tokyo Medical University admitted to systematically altering medical school admission test scores to disadvantage female applicants. Since 2006 the university had been subtracting points from all exam scores, then adding up to 20 points to those of male applicants, with the explicit goal of reducing the percentage of women entering medical school. This systematic discrimination against female medical school applicants is not only sexist and scandalous in its own right — not to mention devastating for the women denied access to the profession they desired — but it constitutes a potential threat to patient safety and public health.
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Student clinical placement challenges, faculty shortages, rising costs – Healthcare Learning Innovations aims to address these and other critical nursing education issues. With our award-winning simulation education software, nursing students can earn simulated clinical hours and practice experience before and after they work with manikins or patients. Enhance your nursing program today! (LEARN MORE)
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Healthcare IT News
Paramedics are using virtual reality to plunge themselves into a simulated mass casualty situation, as part of a trial aimed at improving the emergency response to terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Researchers at Perth’s Edith Cowan University researchers have partnered with VR production company Virtual Guest to create a fully immersive 360-degree virtual reality environment which simulates the immediate aftermath of an event with mass casualties.
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HealthTech
As telehealth grows in popularity and availability, it has a lot to offer rural communities, bringing specialists and even primary care into the homes of those who may be hours away from the nearest healthcare provider. But before telehealth can reach an area, reliable, high-speed connectivity must get there first — a major barrier to the expansion of telehealth in rural regions of the country.
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SSH
If paramedics change the type of breathing tube they use, patients in cardiac arrest may have a better chance of survival -- preventing as many as 10,000 deaths per year -- according to a new study. The research, which was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, may be the first to demonstrate that a particular airway intervention can positively affect patient survival rates.
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Laerdal Medical
If you’re thinking simulation, what’s the right level of fidelity for you? The answer depends on your training objectives, the experience level of your learners, and your budget. Task trainers, standardized patients, hybrid simulation, and high-fidelity simulators all have their place. This article will help you make the best choice to improve maternal outcomes. Read more
Healthcare IT News
Pharmaceutical company Takeda and research and development data science institute ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte have partnered to study patient datasets to better understand the etiology, progression and most effective therapies for difficult diseases. Using insurance claims information including diagnoses, medical procedures and prescriptions, they ran linear and non-linear models on disease datasets like treatment-resistant depression. The goal was to identify data factors with the highest impact on predicting patient outcomes.
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists® and CAE Healthcare bring simulation to you with Anesthesia SimSTAT! Practicing physicians will experience high-fidelity scenarios in a virtual environment to help improve performance in the management of anesthesia emergencies while fulfilling continuing medical education and MOCA 2.0® Part II and IV requirements.
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SimCapture Pro is the industry's most cost-effective simulation center management solution. It combines rapid onsite installation with fully cloud-based operations to deliver an ideal platform for single or multi-room centers. Track all aspects of your simulation program while elevating your learner's experiences. SimCapture is in use at over 500 hospitals, medical schools and nursing programs.
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KNTV-TV
In a room at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, a concerned nurse pushes the "code blue" button beside the bed, and a crowd of staff comes running down the hall. It's not a real emergency — but they've all been instructed to treat it like one. The 5-year-old patient is actually a new medical training robot called HAL that's being used in a hospital setting for the very first time.
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This intensive immersion in healthcare simulation is led by experienced educators and covers all high-level elements and concepts involved in running a program. Learn more.
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AMA Wire
Some are on paper. Some are made of plastic. Whatever the medium, virtual patient simulations — used in a variety of scenarios — are creating physicians more equipped to perform in the real world. Here’s a look at some of the groundbreaking work using virtual patients in medical education.
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Lisa Mulcahy
As a hospital administrator, your goal is to help your patients become as empowered and informed about their health decisions as possible. Yet, you're no doubt familiar with the very common problem of patients having difficulty advocating for themselves. They may feel intimidated in a healthcare setting, so they don't speak up about what they want. They may not know they have the right to a wide range of treatment options; or they may be confused about the medical jargon they're hearing, so they don't fully understand their medical condition.
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