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The Associated Press via Journal of Emergency Medical Services
Washington University in St. Louis said Oct. 17 that it has stopped using sedated cats to train medical students how to insert breathing tubes down babies' throats, effectively ending the practice in the U.S., according to a medical ethics group.
The university's School of Medicine said in a statement that after a "significant investment" in its simulation center, it will now provide neonatal intubation training using only mannequins and advanced simulators, effective immediately.
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By Joan Spitrey
 Like many industries, healthcare has been impacted by technology in ways that were previously unimaginable. Today, heart attacks are diagnosed and treated in record times, people can monitor their blood pressure from their smartphones, and patients can get an idea of their potential diagnosis by entering a few symptoms in a computer database. But has this age of technology pushed the role of the physician to the side? A recent research letter argues that their role is far from over.
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PBS Newshour
In the midst of radical changes in healthcare policy, some U.S. providers are looking to an unlikely model: Sub-Saharan Africa, where ordinary citizens are trained as medical support for their communities. In the U.S., City Health Works is following suit, using community members to form long-term relationships with patients to fill gaps in care. Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports.
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The Breeze
The patient’s heart rate is erratic, they have shortness of breath, their chest starts to tighten, suddenly they start to code. They’re experiencing a heart attack and it’s up to the nursing students to save the patient’s life -— a life that belongs to a human patient simulator, a manikin that functions just like a living, breathing human being.
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Becker's Hospital Review
With more than half of American physicians experiencing burnout, researchers with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, conducted a comprehensive review of research literature to identify effective interventions to address physician burnout, according to a recent study published in The Lancet.
For the review, researchers examined 2,617 articles that dealt with burnout and identified 15 randomized trials involving 716 physicians and 37 cohort studies involving 2,914 physicians.
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EMS World
Emergency medical professionals from all over the world took part in the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center’s latest CPR University, a high-intensity training where participants learned the latest techniques in saving lives. The two-day workshop was the second offered this year by the center and was led by Bentley Bobrow, M.D., director of CPR University and professor of emergency medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, and Bruce Barnhart, MSN, RN, CEP, program coordinator of CPR University and senior manager of The College of Medicine – Phoenix Emergency Medicine Research Center.
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SingularityHUB
Although it’s approaching fast, that future is still in the works. In the meantime, there is a real need to train surgeons in a more scalable way, according to Dr. Shafi Ahmed, a surgeon at the Royal London and St. Bartholomew's hospitals and co-founder of Medical Realities, a company developing a new virtual reality platform for surgical training. Hundreds of years ago, training happened in an “operating theater,” where many would-be surgeons peered over each other’s shoulders to try to get a glimpse of the action and learn as best they could.
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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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HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
For high-risk cardiac patients, video-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation training is noninferior to training with a video self-instruction kit, according to a study published Oct. 4 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Audrey L. Blewer, M.P.H., from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues conducted a prospective, cluster randomized trial of CPR education for family members of patients with high-risk cardiac conditions on hospital cardiac units.
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Alzheimer's News Today
A new study by researchers at Rice University in Houston used computer simulations to explore the beginnings of the molecular process that marks the start of Alzheimer’s disease, which is triggered by the aggregation of a common protein called amyloid beta. The Rice investigators are the first to model the energy landscape of the pathogenic protein’s assembly of many copies into its toxic form.
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MassLive.com
Orchestrations can make a pulse rate jump. Fake blood means a wound-drain needs checking. And the simulations down the hall partied their way into a mess of breathing trouble. "This is amazing," said Rhonda Dow, 32, of Holyoke, a second-year nursing student at Holyoke Community College's Center for Health Education.
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American Heart Association
Nearly 3,000 students graduating each year from Washington, D.C., public and charter schools will now be trained in Hands-Only CPR.
The law was enacted Oct. 8 following completion of the 30-day congressional review period. In D.C., legislation approved by the city council and mayor goes to the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate for approval before it can become law.
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The Baltimore Sun via Phys.org
Once an avid video gamer, Gyorgy Levay stopped playing when he lost his hands to a meningitis infection six years ago. Manipulating a mouse or a controller without hands or fingers was frustratingly impossible, but the struggles Levay faced sparked an interest in building devices to make life easier for him and other upper-limb amputees.
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