Latest Clinical Simulation News From Around the World | November 2021
Helping healthcare simulation educators, administrators, and learners to stay up-to-date on industry topics, HealthySimulation.com finds and shares relevant news and information from around the world. This news includes virtual simulation advances, military simulation training efforts, the adoption of new clinical simulation equipment, a new serious game, and more. Together, these industry updates help paint a picture of where the healthcare simulation industry is at present and where the industry is headed, as the scope of clinical simulation practice expands across the field. Below are some of the world’s latest clinical simulation updates.
VR Headsets Reconstruct Facial Expressions
In this article on TechNewsInc.com, the author shares how a group in Texas is developing a system that allows users of virtual reality (VR) headsets to see the facial expressions of those they interact with. The technology is being developed by a group of researchers at the University of Texas. The goal of the technology is to allow users of virtual reality glasses to see the real facial expressions of those they interact with. The group that developed the VR headset hopes the device will have applications and usefulness in speech therapy. For example, clinicians and therapists can use them to work with distant patients who have speech problems, to indicate exactly where muscles are affected, and to design treatment according to that information.
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Using Virtual Simulations to Enhance Healthcare Education
The Virtu-WIL initiative helps address the challenges posed by in-person placements during COVID-19 by creating new and innovative virtual ways for healthcare students in nursing, medical laboratory sciences, and paramedicine to acquire competencies and make valuable connections with employers. As part of this project, CICan announced the institution is collaborating with Simulation Canada, and with colleges, institutes, and universities from across the country, to offer students innovative work-integrated learning opportunities using virtual simulation. This initiative creates sustainable, collaborative partnerships between post-secondary institutions, employers, learners, and suppliers to develop, implement and distribute virtual WIL simulation opportunities. The Virtu-WIL program also recognizes students for participating in a combination of virtual simulations and structured interactions with employers and helps them develop practical, job-ready competencies.
Birthing Simulator Training Nursing Students in Reno
According to KVVU-TV, the Orvis School of Nursing at the University of Nevada, Reno has obtained the Lucinda birthing simulator. Lucinda can give birth several times a day, and the simulator is built to have different complications that happen during labor. Shannon Richard, assistant professor at the Orvis School of Nursing shared in the report that she has seen students able “to create and build communication skills and sometimes they get to explore these even more than they would in the clinical experience in the hospital, because they may feel more comfortable adding in certain phrases and they get to trial things out, bounce things off of their peers”
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Simulated Solutions in Response to the Pandemic
This article produced by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland shares how the state-of-the-art simulation facilities at RCSI enable learners and postgraduate surgical trainees to undertake the deliberate practice of clinical skills in a safe learning environment, to achieve the highest standards before they work directly with patients. According to the university, the pandemic caused serious disruption for learners limiting the access that many had to essential training in clinical settings. The team at RCSI SIM developed novel ways of teaching and used simulation to deliver the learning outcomes that undergraduate and postgraduate students would typically achieve from real-life situations. This article notes some examples of the innovative solutions the team developed.
Defense Connect, a media and market intelligence platform focused on increasing the connectivity of Australia’s defence industry, shared the news that AUKUS has joined a growing list of nations that Australia’s military is interacting with across the Indo-Pacific: from other Five Eyes partners New Zealand and Canada to the Quad members of India and Japan, and regional partners such as South Korea. These are all nations that Australia will increasingly work with to maintain stability in a region that is becoming more unstable and where the country will need innovative approaches to military preparedness across a range of sensitive scenarios, according to the report.
Simulation to Help Orthopedic Surgical Patients at Baptist Health Hardin
A new resource has been helping orthopedic surgery patients at Baptist Health Hardin. The TRAN-SIT Car Transfer Simulator was recently donated to Baptist Health Hardin Physical Therapy. The simulator will help patients recovering from hip or joint surgery get ready to go home by letting them practice getting in and out of a car. The simulator is also designed to provide a safe and convenient alternative to ‘parking lot’ car transfer training. The Baptist Health Foundation worked with the Swope family to provide funding for the TRAN-SIT car.
VR-based Training for Tricky Surgeries
This article from The Hindu Businessline explains how virtual reality can help physicians train for lifesaving procedures, assist in hardware maintenance, make classrooms livelier for schoolchildren, and more. The article explains how haptic feedback, mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality are now all being used across healthcare simulation training in India. Nasscom, India’s tech industry association, has said that the country’s immersive media industry would be as big as $6.5 billion by 2022. A more recent report, by ResearchandMarkets.com, in September, pegged the Indian AR and VR market at $1.83 billion, and projected a CAGR of 38.29 per cent by 2026-27.
Sheba Medical Center To Create ‘Hospital Of The Future’ Simulation Space
This article published by KWCH12 shares how a cutting-edge high-tech hospital simulation space designed to showcase the future of digital health and home healthcare is coming to Jersey City from Israel. The 30-acre “City of Tomorrow” innovation campus that Liberty Science Center is being developed to launch and grow world-changing science and technology companies and reimagine public school science education. Through this partnership, cutting-edge technologies in health tech out of Israel, “The Start-Up Nation,” will be showcased in a state-of-the-art simulation facility in N.J. as Sheba transforms a floor of the eight-story Edge Works “business optimizer” at SciTech Scity into Liberty ARC HealthSpace2030.
Bioengineer and postdoctoral fellow at the Joint Lab for Emerging Technologies in Simulation – SimAv at the University of Genova, Italy, Serena Ricci, shared on Twitter that SimAv is recruiting a Ph.D. student in bioengineering and robotics to use new technologies for improving medical simulation! The application deadline is November 11.
🤰👶 At SimAv we’re recruiting a PhD student in Bioengineering and Robotics who will use new technologies for improving medical simulation! Deadline is Nov 11, spread the word!For information check https://t.co/TpzeVz5fLD or contact me! #medicalsimulation #phd #bioengineering pic.twitter.com/PfDxFgy3o7
— Serena Ricci (@SerenaRicci20) November 4, 2021
Beast of Gévaudan: The New Boardgame of Influence, Mystery, and Terror
In the new serious game, Beast of Gévaudan, players take on the role of hunters, competing to become the most famous, and ultimately hold the greatest influence over Gévaudan. There are many dangers in the wilds of Gévaudan and players will find themselves facing a variety of different threats, whilst attempting to win through:
- Serving the interests of one of the Four Estates and Secret Patrons
- Battling to sway the public opinion of what the Beast is
- Inflicting and avoiding intrigues
- Acquiring special weapons, hounds, and horses before their rivals do
- Exploring the dangers and wonders of the land
- Investigating the nature of the Beast to face it at the climax of the game
- The true nature of the Beast is not known until the Final Confrontation unless players seek out its identity
The player with the most Influence Tokens (IT) at the end of the game is the winner. Influence Tokens are earned, acquired, lost, and spent throughout the game. Influence is the currency of the realm, and one must ensure it is not squandered. The Nature of the Beast is randomly set at the start of the game and revealed at the climax. Discovering the Beast’s identity allows changes in strategy crucial to winning. Players are also assigned a secret Loyalty; promoting the interests of that party may reap huge rewards at the end of the game.
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Lance Baily, BA, EMT-B, is the Founder & CEO of HealthySimulation.com, which he started while serving as the Director of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas back in 2010. Lance is also the Founder and acting Advisor to the Board of SimGHOSTS.org, the world’s only non-profit organization dedicated to supporting professionals operating healthcare simulation technologies. His co-edited Book: “Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Operations, Technology, and Innovative Practice” is cited as a key source for professional certification in the industry. Lance’s background also includes serving as a Simulation Technology Specialist for the LA Community College District, EMS fire fighting, Hollywood movie production, rescue diving, and global travel. He and his wife Abigail Baily, PhD live in Las Vegas, Nevada with their two amazing daughters.
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