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‘Exceptional Scan Trainer’ supports basic training workshop at ISUOG World Congress
‘Exceptional Scan Trainer’ supports basic training workshop at ISUOG World Congress MedaPhor began this year’s ISUOG World Congress by supporting the Pre-Congress ‘Basic Training Course: A Practical Approach to the Ob/Gyn Ultrasound Examination’ with five ScanTrainer Transvaginal and Transabdominal simulators. This year’s course saw over 30 obstetricians, gynaecologists and residents from all over the world gather for two […]
BodyWorks Eve has just been admitted into New York’s VA Medical Center presenting with shortness of breath, tachycardia and chest pain…
The VA Medical Center (NY Harbor) Simulation Laboratory has just taken delivery of BodyWorks Eve to develop and support its educational programs in Point of Care ultrasound (PoCUS). Dr. Brian Kaufman, Professor of Medicine, Anesthesiology, Neurology and Neurosurgery and Director of the Simulation Laboratory discusses the growing demands for PoCUS training and explains why simulation…
HeartWorks powers first Resuscitative TEE Project workshop
MedaPhor’s HeartWorks simulators have powered the first Resuscitative TEE Project (#RESTEE) workshop at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. It is believed that this is the first practical course of its kind dedicated solely to the practice of resuscitative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in the United States. The Project was the brain-child of Dr.…
Canada’s largest sonography programme chooses ScanTrainer and HeartWorks
Mohawk College, in collaboration with McMaster University, has opened a new Centre for Healthcare Simulation, an interprofessional educational facility, complete with new ScanTrainer and HeartWorks simulators to support its expanding sonography programme. The college had been a ScanTrainer user since 2015. Although initially planning to utilise ScanTrainer to teach students obstetric ultrasound motion skills, its greater…
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…