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American College of Surgeons via News-Medical.net
While simulation platforms have been used to train surgeons before they enter an actual operating room, few studies have evaluated how well trainees transfer those skills from the simulator to the OR. Now, a study that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity has found that simulator-trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.
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Anesthesiology News
Simulation training for neuraxial procedures is an important innovation in medical education.
Simulation-based training in the healthcare professions is increasing. With simulation, medical trainees practice clinical skills and obtain focused feedback on their performance, all while never inconveniencing, worrying or harming a patient. Training for neuraxial procedures can be enhanced by including simulation into the curriculum.
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Illinois State University
First-year graduate students in the Communication Sciences and Disorders had an opportunity to gain Alternate Clinical Education hours during the summer as part of an academic course, CSD 422: Assessment Across the Lifespan, taught by Patricia Larkin. ACE hours were earned using SimuCase, a web-based program that provides educational training of assessment for speech-language pathologists using virtual patients. The patients in these case studies presented with a variety of medical and communication needs.
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The New York Times
The patient, still inside his mother’s womb, came into focus on flat screens in a darkened operating room. Fingers, toes, the soles of his feet — all exquisite, all perfectly formed.
But not so his lower back. Smooth skin gave way to an opening that should not have been there, a bare oval exposing a white rim of bone and the nerves of the spinal cord.
“All right, it’s the real deal,” said Dr. Michael A. Belfort, the chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine and obstetrician and gynecologist-in-chief of Texas Children’s Hospital. A pediatric neurosurgeon, Dr. William Whitehead, joined Dr. Belfort at the operating table. To develop their fetoscopic procedure, Belfort and Whitehead operated on sheep and spent several hundred hours over the course of two years practicing on a simulator that they had created.
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Fortune
Fortune contributor Sy Mukherjee writes:
"'Oh, God, please don’t let me trip over anything.'”
That’s my first thought as I tiptoe around the electrical cords snaked across the operating room floor. It’s an early October morning at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. I’m decked out in a onesie-style baby blue protective suit, a hair mat, a bonnet to cover my beard, an additional mask for my mouth and booties over my shoes."
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The Washington Post
The government ministers were facing a new infectious disease outbreak. The mysterious virus was sickening and killing people with alarming speed. Some patients had to be placed on ventilators to help them breathe. The new virus seemed resistant to antibiotics and antiviral medicine.
Within a week, officials had closed a major hospital and schools and quarantined thousands of people. Fear and panic spread quickly as people in neighboring countries became infected and died.
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American College of Chest Physicians via Medical Xpress
Researchers from the Aventura Hospital Medical Center in Aventura, Florida, aimed to assess the quality of continuity of care by analyzing family perceptions, education, and their psychological stress during the process. From April to March, researchers conducted a quality improvement project in long-term acute care facilities in South Florida.
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Award-winning Sentinel City® was designed by nurse educators for use in population health and other nursing courses. It provides students with simulated clinical hours through integrated Home and Family Support Assessments, nursing diagnosis and final care plan creation. It includes 17 complete assignments with AACN Essentials mapping and grading rubrics. Learn More!
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“Simulation made easy…” , our goal is to make your training more effective, expanding the range of your training , not your training complications. We have been helping medical and emergency service educators deliver better training outcomes with their students and staff for over 50 years- SIMULAIDS: “Training for Life.”
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American College of Chest Physicians via Medical Xpress
Delivering news about end-of-life issues is one of the most difficult tasks clinicians encounter in medical practice. Researchers from the Texas Medical Center on behalf of the ETHICS study investigators, in Houston, aimed to assess how prepared healthcare providers feel in communicating end-of-life issues and determining if proper training had been given to healthcare providers. A 30-question survey addressing opinions regarding ethical issues, religion and attitudes on specific group of patients, and communication skills was administered in 174 different institutions across 40 countries.
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Omaha World-Herald
Aspiring doctors at Ralston Middle School in Nebraska got a chance to test their medical acumen during a Cyber Surgeon event for high-ability learners.
Working in groups, students were given medical cases based on real situations and were supposed to diagnose the patients and recommend a treatment. The “patient” was then put through a simulation based on the students’ recommendations and the students would receive the results of the treatment.
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Modern Healthcare
Few could argue providers' role in two of the leading public health concerns facing the country; the opioid epidemic and the threat posed by infections that are resistant to antibiotics.
Both problems can be traced back partly to clinical decisions that led to overprescribing pain relievers or antibiotics. Experts say those decisions can be influenced by peer pressure or the desire to fit in — the same factors that affect the average person's decision-making abilities.
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American College of Chest Physicians via EurekAlert!
In the ICU, it's uncommon to hear silence— buzzing, beeping and ringing of alarms are part of the hum of the ICU environment. The Joint Commission attributes many alarm-related incidents and deaths to the "alarm fatigue" hospital workers face. Alarm fatigue happens when staff "tune out" the background sounds and can negatively impact patient safety and potentially lead to life-threatening events. Two studies from researchers in New York aim to decrease alarm rates, tackle alarm fatigue and assess alarm accuracy in the ICU.
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