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The New York Times
In August, Jeffrey Feig, a 50-year-old financial executive in Manhattan and father of three young sons, became one of the more than 350,000 Americans who each year suffer a sudden cardiac arrest. His heart went into an erratic and ineffective rhythm and he stopped breathing.
But unlike 90 percent of people similarly afflicted, Feig not only lived to tell the tale but survived his near-death experience without any damage to his heart muscle or his brain, an outcome rarely seen following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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www.3ders.org
When you think of the combination of 3-D printers and hospitals, the first thing that comes to mind are 3-D printed implants and even 3-D printed organs, made a patient’s own stem cells. While those applications are certainly being developed, cardiovascular surgeons from the Maastricht University Hospital have just reminded the world that some existing invasive surgeries can also yield better results through 3-D printing.
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By Keith Carlson
 Nurse leaders face a challenging environment in today's world of healthcare and nursing. Rapidly changing technology, a volatile economic healthcare climate and other seismic shifts point to ways in which nurse leaders must be willing to pivot when necessary while offering strong support to the nurses whom they supervise and lead. While not a panacea, these five strategies can assist nurse leaders in keeping their eyes on both the micro and macro as they navigate choppy waters.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 Another day in healthcare and another survey. The latest one by Deloitte aims to understand physicians' attitudes toward electronic health records and perceptions about the current market trends impacting medicine and future state of the practice of medicine. Physicians believe EHRs are most useful for analytics and reporting capabilities compared to other attributes. However, the passion for the technology is certainly not on fire.
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MultiBriefs
In an effort to enhance the overall content of Simulation Spotlight, we’d like to include peer-written articles in future editions. As a member of SSH, your knowledge of the industry lends itself to unprecedented expertise. And we’re hoping you’ll share this expertise with your peers through well-written commentary. Because of the digital format, there’s no word limit, and our group of talented editors can help with final edits. If you’re interested in participating, please contact Ronnie Richard to discuss logistics.
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The Gilmer Mirror
The Northeast Texas Community College Health Sciences department held its first interdisciplinary simulation that combined medical assisting, nursing, medical lab technician, and physical therapist assistant students Oct. 18 in the Medical Assisting and Simulation Labs.
Students moved through a "real-world" patient scenario that incorporated the full healthcare team.
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By Lynn Hetzler
 Occupational stress is ubiquitous in the workplace today, and it presents major challenges to health and safety on the jobsite. Emergency departments are notoriously high-pressure environments, but health scientists have never established the specific organizational stressors that affect workers in the ED. However, a new literature review in Emergency Medical Journal investigated occupational stress in the emergency department.
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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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FierceHealthcare
Doctors and patients can both be bad at communicating with each other.
"Both sides are to blame," writes Brenda Avadian, executive director of The Caregiver's Voice, in U.S. News & World Report. "While doctors are under pressure to keep a tight schedule, patients arrive poorly prepared." As a patient advocate for almost 20 years, Avadian says she believes insurance companies could save millions of dollars if patients better adhered to their treatment plans. Doctors can better ensure that happens by taking time to talk with patients.
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Tinker Ready via HealthLeaders Media
When medical students have questions about the safety of the care they see, most aren't comfortable challenging the providers who deliver it.
There are several reasons for that reticence, a survey published in the American Journal of Medical Quality finds.
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HealthData Management
With all the renewed talk lately about the need for a national patient identifier in healthcare, Dr. Andrew Gettinger, chief medical information officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, prefers the term “individual safety identifier” instead.
Regardless of what he calls it, the driving force behind such an identifier is patient safety, according to Gettinger, given that identifying patients and accurately matching their electronic health records as they move across healthcare organizations continues to be a daunting challenge.
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The Guardian
In a small operating theater underneath Hammersmith hospital, a team of cardiologists are in a race against time. They’re performing an angioplasty, a delicate and dextrous procedure where tiny wires are inserted into the heart to widen coronary arteries narrowed by plaque buildup. Things have gone badly wrong.
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