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First BodyWorks Eve installed at NYU School of Medicine
The first BodyWorks Eve, Point of Care ultrasound (PoCUS) simulator, has been installed at NYU School of Medicine, in the simulation laboratory of the affiliated Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System NY Campus, New York, USA. BodyWorks Eve is an ultra-realistic female manikin-based simulator designed specifically for doctors looking to train in Point of…
Study finds HeartWorks can improve novice performance in Critical Care
A recent clinical study* has found that adding HeartWorks TEE Simulators (Transesophageal Echocardiography) to training can improve novices’ ability to perform focused critical care TEE. The study, conducted by the University of Bern, Switzerland, took 44 intensive care unit trainees and randomly split them into two groups; one group receiving four hours of lecture-based training…
ScanTrainer supports another successful SonoSlam
It was great to support another SonoSlam ultrasound skills tournament with our ScanTrainer Transvaginal Simulators (TVS) at this year’s AIUM Annual Convention (The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine) in New York. The annual competition saw 72 students in 24 teams from 21 US medical school emergency medicine programs enter a head-to-head battle to win…
Central Middlesex Hospital opens new ultrasound training academy with ScanTrainer
The London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) has chosen ScanTrainer for its new state-of-the-art Ultrasound Training Academy at Central Middlesex Hospital. The new education centre has been designed to ease growing ultrasound training pressures and clinical demands across the Trust and beyond. Faced with a looming 24/7 NHS, the imminent rise in demand for…
MedaPhor receives funding to develop NeedleGuide
Innovative virtual reality aid for ultrasound-guided needling MedaPhor is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant offer from Innovate UK to fund the development of NeedleGuideTM, a new augmented reality imaging device for ultrasound-guided needling, aimed at improving patient safety as well reducing the time and cost of these difficult procedures. Doctors…
University of Hertfordshire achieves 100% transvaginal pass rate with ScanTrainer
The University of Hertfordshire needed an advanced simulation solution to counter the lack of clinical practice opportunities for its ultrasound students. Since implementing a ScanTrainer Transvaginal Simulator (TVS), student confidence levels are at an all-time high and the University is achieving a 100% pass rate across all transvaginal modules. Limited clinical practice opportunities adversely affected…
Introducing the Derby Ultrasound Critical Care Course (DUCC) featuring HeartWorks
The Royal Derby University Hospital’s Ultrasound in Critical Care Course (DUCC) developed by Dr. Craig Morris, Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, is a stimulating 2-day course of lectures and workshops covering the essentials of transthoracic echocardiography in critical care settings. The course is CPD accredited by FICE (Focused Intensive Care Echo) and the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA).…
MedaPhor wins first ScanTrainer customer in India
MedaPhor Group plc is pleased to announce its first ScanTrainer sales in India. Indira IVF, a leading group of private fertility clinics in India, has purchased three ScanTrainer Transvaginal training simulators to meet the growing ultrasound training demands of its 80 clinicians and 90 embryologists across its 22 fertility centres across India. The group plans to…
Exploring the use of Ultrasound in ALS Training
On the 17th July, Darent Valley Hospital hosted and piloted the first Cardiac Arrest Ultrasound Course in the UK. The course, which is intended as an adjunct to current Advanced Life Support (ALS) training, has been designed to determine when and how ultrasound should be employed within current ALS guidelines and protocols in treating the…
Better training, Better healthcare…
Dr. Thomas Burch M.D., Cardiac Anesthesiologist from Boston Children’s Hospital gives a personal account of how simulation training using the HeartWorks system helped to increase his confidence with transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in his patient care. “I first came across the HeartWorks Simulator back in 2005 when I began teaching Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE). At that time…