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Healthcare Simulation Week
Welcome to Healthcare Simulation Week! This is our second year recognizing and celebrating healthcare simulationists around the world. Participation and enthusiasm are high! This year we have a Video Contest, and the submissions are thoughtful, inspiring and fun. Please take time to go to the SSH website and watch the videos and then vote for your favorite.
If you are not an SSH member and have been thinking about becoming one, check out the member benefits here.
Content submission
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.
Contact me with any feedback.
Kathryn Elliott Pullins
kpullins@ssih.org
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Healthcare DIVE
Hospitals were preparing for the storm last week, hoping not to see a repeat of problems after last year's hurricanes in Texas and Florida — and especially Puerto Rico, where many of the thousands of deaths in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria were blamed on lack of access to healthcare services. Florence continues to rage in the Carolinas and Virginia despite its downgrade, and heavy rain is expected for the next couple of days. Flooding remains a danger this week and tornadoes have been confirmed in North Carolina.
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By Karen Haneline MSN,RN
Simulation requires all manners of reenacting real hospital scenarios.
Our senior-level nursing students have a multi patient simulation. The standardized simulation requires the use of a call light by one of the patients. Our facility is not equipped with call lights in the simulation bays. We wanted to get the students’ attention while they were in the other room of their multi patient SIM. The standard requires that the students move as a group, they cannot send one person off to check the patient on their own. The students are doing their assessment on Patient 1 and Patient 2 is ringing her call light and yelling out from her room.
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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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DVIDS
“What are you doing to me?” the patient moaned, after paramedics failed to insert a breathing tube into his narrowing airway. A bubbly mucous in the man’s mouth had to be suctioned before they could try again. The patient was conscious and alert, but had been exposed to the nerve agent VX, and the team of medical responders scrambled to treat him, inserting IVs and monitoring his vital signs. That is, until the next medical team came into the room for their round of training on the computerized patient simulator, a mannequin programmed with physical responses to emergency scenarios, including chemical decontamination.
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Health Management Technology
If recent research is any indication, artificial intelligence has a bright future in medicine. Nvidia developed an AI system that can generate synthetic scans of brain cancer. Google subsidiary DeepMind has demonstrated a machine learning algorithm that can recommend treatment for more than 50 eye diseases with 94 percent accuracy. And in newly published research, New York University showed how AI might aid in lung cancer diagnosis.
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Hospital Healthcare Europe
Situation awareness can be defined as "the perception of elements of the environment within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning and the projection of their status in the near future." In simple terms, it is knowing what is going on around you by extracting information from the environment and then integrating that information to create a notion of the situation and anticipate future events. Understanding the meaning of SA and how to improve it in a complex work environment, such as the operating room, is essential for patient safety.
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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
The U.S Food and Drug Administration serves a critical role in healthcare innovation by regulating a range of medical devices and digital health tools. As the industry continues its feverish pace of advancement, the agency itself has been evolving to better vet and approve emerging technologies. Over the last year, in fact, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has put an emphasis on speeding up the process in getting technology and medications out to the public.
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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.
New scenario now available!
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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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Johns Hopkins Medicine
In a proof of concept study, scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have successfully created personalized, 3-D virtual simulations of patients' hearts for doctors to visualize and perform a lifesaving procedure that corrects irregular or rapid heartbeats. The 3-D models will help cardiac specialists understand where to destroy tissue in the heart to stop potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmia.
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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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Healthcare IT News
Dr. Albert Chi, medical director of Muscle Integration at Oregon Health & Science University and patient Johnny Matheny demonstrate how nerve reassignment and VR rehab work to advance prosthetic limb technology.
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HealthTech Magazine
More than 43 million Americans, roughly 18 percent, have a mental health condition, according to a 2017 report published by Mental Health America. However, many of those individuals lack access to care, with 1 in 5 adults reporting an unmet need and nearly 8 percent of youth without access to mental health services through private insurance. Overall in 2017, 56 percent of American adults with a mental illness did not receive treatment, according to the report. Exacerbating the issue is a shortage of providers to treat such patients.
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AMA Wire
Reducing 30-day readmissions, identifying unsafe medication orders and cutting out superfluous blood draws for hospitalized adults to slash hundreds of thousands in spending are just a few of the big advances in patient safety and healthcare quality tallied at Penn Medicine in recent years. It should come as little surprise that one of the most prestigious names in health care has notched such achievements.
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