SiTEL, MedStar Health’s Simulation Training and Environment Lab, invites you to save the date for April 11, 2011. In its fourth year, our Innovative Education Conference continues to bring engaged professionals together for informative training and leadership.
The 2010 AHA Guidelines were recently released in October. This is an exciting time for all healthcare professionals, professional rescuers, and the lay rescuer. There are some significant changes in the AHA guidelines. It is important to begin your review as soon as possible to understand the recommendations. As an authorized provider of CPR and [...]
While the use of the term “fidelity” is familiar to most involved in simulation, it is term that has been used loosely and without absolute understanding. ‘Fidelity’ as a word has been generalized and used by the simulation community with such cloaked meaning to a point where the term “high fidelity“ has gained ephemeral characteristics. So [...]
Compared to other high-risk industries, healthcare has been slow to incorporate simulation into its training, assessment, and certification activities. The potential for simulation to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors and deaths, and decrease health care costs is far from fully realized. Simulation strengthens confidence and promotes competence by providing a safe and supportive environment [...]
Open publication – Free publishing – More terrorism The healthcare concerns of terror medicine are far-reaching. Chapter Five, authored by Dr. Yuri Millo, Director of SiTEL, addresses the need for education and training in the area of terror medicine. If a mass casualty incident (MCI) occurs on American territory, the main difficulty with disaster response [...]
The clinical simulation center of today will be the medical school of tomorrow. To address physician and nursing shortages, across the next 10-15 years, we will see an unprecedented growth in healthcare education. The question remains whether the quality of education will change with the increased volume. We think so. Transforming medical and nursing school [...]
With regard to preventable medical errors, medical tube mix-ups are a reality the can be solved with training and improved product design. While improved product design is hampered by federal approvals and international standards adoption, online and simulation training in [virtual] environments using 3D devices and mannequins remains a cost-effective and time sensitive solution. “This [...]
Dear Medical Simulation Advocates: We are writing today to ask for your help in advancing medical simulation in the U.S. Senate! AIMS is working on a legislative initiative for which we need help from the entire medical simulation community. As you well know, AIMS is working to advance the medical simulation legislation (S.616/H.R. 855) forward [...]
George Halvorson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente says it best—the United States health-care system is “uncoordinated, unfocused, inconsistent, unmeasured, extremely inefficient, perversely incented, excessively expensive, and sometimes dangerous.” We don’t have a healthcare system, we have a sickness industry. The word system means a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole. We have [...]
The price of medical errors is high emotionally, professionally and financially. In 2005, the Washington Hospital Center saw three sentinel events related to obstetrical emergencies. The root cause analysis of these events mimicked that of the research conducted in root causes in maternal deaths and injuries. These include: Communication breakdowns Organizational cultural barriers to effective [...]
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