Product Comparison Chart: Trauma Training Devices
➣ Kimberly Huynh
Author: Brenda Wiederhold
President of Virtual Reality Medical Institute (VRMI) in Brussels, Belgium. Executive VP Virtual Reality Medical Center (VRMC), based in San Diego and Los Angeles, California. CEO of Interactive Media Institute a 501c3 non-profit Clinical Instructor in Department of Psychiatry at UCSD Founder of CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy, & Social Networking Conference Visiting Professor at Catholic University Milan.
Trauma Teams and Training: Making the Sum Greater Than the Parts
➣ By Marjan Siadat & Rosemarie Fernandez Trauma is the leading cause of death in the first four decades of life, with traumarelated injuries constituting more than 25% of all…read more →
Current Concepts in Trauma Training: New Applications for High Fidelity Patient Simulation
➣ By Mark P. Vu & James W. Price The wail of an ambulance siren announces the arrival of a trauma patient to the emergency department. Paramedics unload an injured…read more →
Large Scale Simulations in Pediatric Cardiology: Towards the Personalized Virtual Child Heart
➣ By William W. McFadden & Michael Suehling The treatment of pediatric congenital heart disease is hampered by the scarcity of relevant cases, the lack of integrated data and the…read more →
U.S. Military Takes on High- Tech and High-Adventure to Train for Wartime Lifesaving
➣ By Thomas B. Talbot The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), the Army’s high-technology medical pathfinder, has been intensifying advances in wartime trauma training through the use of…read more →
Hemorrhage Control in the Battlefield: Role of Modeling and Simulation to Support Training of Combat Medics
➣ By Teresita Marie Sotomayor & Don Parsons During the Vietnam War over 2,500 Soldiers died due to hemorrhage from extremity wounds. In current conflicts hemorrhage continues to be the…read more →
Combining Stress Inoculation Training with Medical Training for Combat Medics
➣ By Nancy Ahmann Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) is often the umbrella term used to represent a collection of coping strategies provided to the trainee. Often thought of as “mental…read more →
C&R in Canada
➣ Rasheda Farid & Khodeza Begum The growth of psychology as a separate field was not considered in Canada until the last half of the 19th century. The first psychology…read more →
Integrating High-Fidelity Simulation in Nursing and Medical Training for Seamless Care
➣ By Lingjun Kong For decades, simulation in nursing education and medical training has been incorporated into the teaching and learning process in the form of static mannequins, role playing,…read more →
The Two Faces of Virtual Reality: Medical Simulation and Experiential Interface
➣ By Giuseppe Riva Within the emerging cybertherapy field, a central role is played by Virtual Reality (VR). If we check the two leading clinical databases – MEDLINE and PSYCINFO…read more →