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The 194th Intelligence Squadron and the 194th Medical Group with the Washington Air National Guard conducted a mass casualty care exercise at American Lake at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on June 8, 2016 in support of Cascadia Rising, a test of Washington state's earthquake response plan. The exercise simulated the collapse... 20 June 2016
TRELLEBORG, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Trelleborg has, through its business area Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, signed an agreement to acquire Specialty Silicone Fabricators Inc. (SSF), a U.S.-based privately-owned manufacturer of high-precision silicone components for medical technology original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The acquired company is a significant player in the important and high... 20 June 2016
Nursing Simulation Lab Coordinators can use electronic charting system simulations to let students view patient data and then chart the skills they performed. However, until recently, the changing information from the scenario itself had to be manually entered by an instructor, or entered in advance on the static chart. Now,... 17 June 2016
Could a virtual reality headset someday replace traditional cadaver labs for medical students? Probably not – but a new app for the Oculus Rift could certainly help. VR Human Anatomy, currently being tested by medical students at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, reportedly offers just that. Developed by a... 17 June 2016
Digital technology and innovation are helping healthcare organizations provide higher-level service for patients, with better diagnoses and care. This ongoing transformation of healthcare is also greatly shifting how doctors, nurses, patients and families are getting and communicating healthcare information. These are five of the biggest healthcare trends reverberating through the... 17 June 2016
The Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health is partnering with four universities in China and South Korea and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) based in Vienna, Austria to enhance research, teaching and overall public health practice across the globe. The five-year agreements lay the groundwork for faculty... 16 June 2016
BOSTON — Everyone was so sure the newborn would die that they didn’t even clean him off after birth. Nurses didn’t weigh him, or suction fluid out of his throat. His parents had bought no baby supplies, other than a single onesie. They expected to bury him in it. But... 15 June 2016
CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL. THE woman clings to life on a hospital trolley, three days after a heart attack. The junior doctor in charge but panicked by inexperience goes AWOL and critical care nurses have minutes to act when a ventilation tube becomes dislodged while the patient is taken for a... 15 June 2016
Philips North America and Texas A&M University System are collaborating to create integrated Emergency Medical Services (EMS) technologies for more efficient and effective coordination of response efforts, and developing point-of-care diagnostics and biosurveillance to help avoid epidemics and pandemics. As part of the collaboration, Philips and The Texas A&M University... 15 June 2016
DRAWSKO POMORSKIE, Poland - Above a military training field, the green camouflaged watchtower becomes the perfect vantage point to witness landmine explosions and a hovering medical helicopter while Polish and American soldiers run intensely to treat wounded soldiers. U.S. and Polish army troops are participating in mass casualty evacuation training... 15 June 2016
Jamie Cernobyl happily worked as a welder for 33 years. His youngest daughter Erica went to college for sociology. Years after both established separate careers, the nontraditional pair graduated together with associate's degrees in registered nursing from Northampton Community College on May 26. The two did not intentionally decide to... 15 June 2016
The readiness of local health emergency workers is being put to the test today. A number of drills are underway including one at UW-Milwaukee. The Public Health Department is working with UWM and the North Shore Health Department for this statewide exercise. This is a simulation of the procedure that would... 14 June 2016
Training Effectiveness Shah MI, Carey JM, Rapp SE, et al. Impact of high-fidelity pediatric simulation on paramedic seizure management. Prehosp Emerg Care. March 8, 2016. [Epub ahead of print.] With increased emphasis on culture of safety and rising concerns over medical errors, our attention this month turns to this study... 14 June 2016
KNOXVILLE--No one can deny that open-heart surgery, where the heart is exposed and the blood is made to bypass it, is one of the most invasive of all medical procedures. Nearly a third of all patients undergoing heart surgery experience kidney failure, yet little is known about why kidney injury... 13 June 2016
During the Emergency Nurses Association's annual meeting in October at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, 40 nurses and 100 actor volunteers simulated a mass casualty terrorist attack before 3,000 people. The association had no way of knowing that a nearby nightclub just eight months later and 10... 13 June 2016
The medical simulation centre at NTNU was referred to as a “blueprint for the future of medical simulation” when Caverion Norway, the team behind the smart solution, recently won first place in two categories at the Crestron Integration Awards. Medical simulation is a teaching method that uses an advanced computer-controlled... 13 June 2016
For many people, our concept of medical emergency procedures is informed by a lifetime of consuming television medical dramas. For anesthetists and medical staff, though, the emergency sim ward offers the most realistic insight into an emergency procedure, as Teresa Crea discovers. Medical simulation—the re-enactment of a medical event—often makes... 13 June 2016
Middle school and high school students are getting an opportunity to test the water of medical professions this week at the third annual Health Career Camp at Fort Lewis College and around Durango. The event, coordinated by the Southwest Colorado Area Health Education Center, provides the 27 students a chance to... 13 June 2016
A pre-operative patient education program involving physics has approximately halved the rate of post-operative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing major elective surgery. Known as ERAS+, the multidisciplinary patient education programme was introduced at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust in September 2014. It followed an audit during the previous year. This... 13 June 2016
“Some say space is the final frontier, but I believe that the brain is the ultimate frontier” says Dr. Ryan Darcy, Brentwood '91, an acclaimed neuroscientist and entrepreneur who is currently leading a team of talented biomedical engineers, physicists, and other scientists at one of the foremost labs and... 10 June 2016