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5 Reasons Why Simulation Training is Better | Healthcare

Shyam Gajrani / / Medical Simulation, Medicine, Nursing Education, Simulation-based Learning

The benefits of incorporating simulation training in teaching specific medical skills are manifold. But what are the 5 biggest advantages that make it a viable option that delivers superior results to using the traditional teaching paradigm alone? Let’s find out.

What is Simulation Training?

Simulation training is the process of reproducing realistic environments and situations (often with the use of lifelike simulators/manikins and trainers/medical skills) to create a hands-on learning experience for a learner to practice certain skills. Simulation has been adopted into various fields as a method of learning. For example, pilots first learn to fly a plane on a simulator. Today, it is an essential teaching tool in various industries like aviation, military, and healthcare.

5 Things that Make it Better than Traditional Learning

There are many more benefits to simulation learning other than the fact that it provides the opportunity for hands-on learning. Here are 5 reasons why it is effective (and better):

It provides a safe environment and avoids risk to real patients

While simulation provides an excellent hands-on learning opportunity (theoretical learning isn’t enough for some skills), it does so in a safe environment. This means that students can explore. That they are free to make mistakes and are given the chance to learn from their mistakes rather than being reprimanded for them or the mistakes translating into real-life blunders. This is a rather important attribute of the learning process- the privilege to be able to make mistakes and learn from them. And when students feel free to explore, they inarguably learn better. On top of that, it means that real patients will not be put at risk, as it is when learners practice on real patients- one mistake and a lot could go wrong. Plus, not everyone is comfortable with being attended by a fresher-simulation also helps avoid that.

It builds team skills (among many others)

Usually, in the real-life clinical setting, professionals don’t work alone. A whole team of individuals and a whole lot of work goes into saving lives. Individuals must work together to make the best decisions possible in time to save a patient’s life and deliver optimal treatment quality. Apart from building skills like decision-making skills and the ability to think on your feet, simulation in healthcare training helps build communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team. It also helps with team leading, team building, and crisis resource management skills. People don’t just start working together if placed in the same room; the ability to work efficiently as part of a team is important.

It builds confidence AND improves the quality of patient care delivered

By bridging the gap between theory and practice, simulation training is able to instill a kind of confidence in learners that enables them to go ahead and deliver excellent quality care as they step into the profession. And confidence is also directly linked to competence. A confident professional will be able to smartly deal with any situation- like when interacting with patients or their families, or when there is a tough decision to make. So when learners start to develop confidence, it becomes easier for them to start taking their own decisions and operating by their own autonomy.

It provides real-time feedback

Not only does simulation training and medical skills bridge the gap between theory and practice, through the use of lifelike simulators and trainers with monitors that display real-time feedback, it is made easier to assess the student’s performance. But this isn’t useful for the instructor alone. It means that the student can evaluate his own performance as he works on the patient (manikin or trainer) and evolve to make better decisions during the process. This is a benefit that is not present with the traditional training method. It is one of the things that makes simulation training so effective in healthcare.

It gives learners an idea of what to expect

While a simulated environment is exciting and comfortable, it also prepares learners for what to expect in a real clinical setting. With high-fidelity simulation, there are some distractions as would be in a real hospital. There may be too much noise, a bad smell, or a number of other big and small disturbances that can easily distract someone working on a critical task and result in serious procedural errors. It can also worsen performance and increase the number of attempts and the amount of time taken to do something. Being exposed to such distractions at an early learning stage can accustom the learner to think on their feet and perform better despite said distractions, effectively preventing serious errors.

With such obvious benefits, simulation training greatly outweighs the performance benefits offered by traditional learning alone, and is an indispensable asset in healthcare education.

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Simulation in Echocardiography: Can it Fill the Demand?

Shyam Gajrani / / Medical Simulation, Nursing Education, Simulation-based Learning

Echocardiography, which is the use of ultrasound waves to observe the action of the heart, is known to be notoriously difficult to learn and requires extensive training to master. Can simulation in echocardiography be the answer to the growing demand?

Echocardiography needs a lot of skill to master

Today, cardiovascular diseases are one of the most common causes of death around the globe. And as they become more prevalent, the demand for diagnosis also increases. Since echocardiography is an affordable, non-invasive imaging technique that delivers immediate results, it is of importance to see how we can improve the learning process for aspiring learners. But it is difficult to learn.

Apart from being technically competent and practically skilled in what they do, echocardiographers need to understand:

  • The physics behind the modalities
  • Sufficient knowledge of the anatomy
  • The physiology and pathology of the heart

It is hard enough to handle the transducer and connect it to the heart’s anatomy, but they need to understand the basics of ultrasound physics and extract and assess information of the 3D heart from a 2D image.

Challenges to Learning Echocardiography

A 2019 study by Dieden, Carlson, and Gudmundsson discovered the main challenges to learning echocardiography, and the things that could aid the learning. Students found the main challenges to be:

  • The projections: It can be a sizeable task to steer the transducer and obtain a projection, and then make sense of it. And it can be hard for the students to link the projections to where in the heart the ultrasound beam cut.
  • Handling the probe: It can be hard for learners to figure out where to place, angle, and turn the transducer for some projections. They can be clueless about how to position and turn the transducer if they never have any practice.
  • Connecting ultrasound physics and measurements to practical application: Students can find it difficult to link the theory of ultrasound physics to practical performance with the machine.

Things That Help Students Learn Better

The study mentioned above also stated 5 things that would improve learning:

  • Immediate feedback: Real-time feedback and correction from instructors and the screens on the task trainers can improve the learning process; like if the screen can tell them whether they have placed the transducer correctly
  • Playing with the ultrasound machine: it allows learners to use the machine firsthand where no button is off-limits and nothing can go wrong
  • Video lectures
  • The possibility to swiftly alternate between practice and theory: while getting hands-on experience with the ultrasound machine helps learners practice what they just learned, it also helps them understand when and how to apply some concepts and measurements in the clinical setting
  • Learning by their mistakes in a risk-free environment without serious consequences: Students learn to accept that making mistakes is a positive part of the learning process and can make them better at the task

It is interesting to see that 4 out of the 5 things mentioned above can be achieved with the help of manikins and simulators. Using a manikin helps students learn echocardiography in a way that lets them truly understand the fundamentals behind what they are learning, and can even help learners link the anatomy of the heart, placing the probe, and the location of the beam. Echocardiographic simulation can aid traditional training strategies and improve their efficiency.

It can be hard to get real heart patients for learners to operate on. Additionally, if they do learn by operating on real patients, it can make the patients uncomfortable, put them at risk, and breach their privacy. And it can be hard for teachers to explain concepts to learners while managing the needs of a live patient.

It is well-known how simulators allow repeated practice of diverse scenarios ranging from high-risk to rare, and have been adopted into medical and surgical training. Numerous studies have proved that using simulations and mannequins for learning echocardiography is largely beneficial.

By incorporating simulation in echocardiography, learners profit by shorter learning times(by accelerating the learning process), better outcomes, and lower complication rates. They learn to manipulate the transducer better and angulate it to the skin safely, and comprehend the projections easily. Finally, incorporating simulation in echocardiography helps produce competency.

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Top 10 Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Medical Simulators You’ll Need | SEM Trainers

Top 10 Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Medical Simulators You’ll Need | SEM Trainers

Shyam Gajrani / / Medical Simulation, Medicine, Nursing Education, Simulation-based Learning

Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) are guidelines for providing immediate medical care for life-threatening injuries on the battlefield. Training for TCCC skills can be provided in 3 phases (care under fire, tactical field care, and tactical evaluation care). Students learn the management of trauma care and blast related injuries, and handle hemorrhage control and airway management. Learners cannot be assigned to real patients for handling traumatic combat injuries, but with the help of hyper-realistic simulators, they get all the practice they might need!

Here are some of our powerful TCCC simulators:

  1. Casualty Care Rescue Randy – powered by Strategic Operations Hyper-Realistic® technology

The three most preventable causes of death are massive bleeding, airway obstruction, and tension pneumothorax. This one is a hyper-realistic full-body manikin that is perfect for training on the procedures that treat these 3 conditions. This manikin holds 3-4 liters of blood and simulates a 2-3 psi blood pressure.

  1. Tactical Combat Casualty Care Simulator with Major Vascular Injuries – TCCS 2

This full-body simulator is great for realistically training combat trauma care for major vascular injuries for hemorrhage management and airway control using common wound patterns of combat. Durable in the toughest training scenarios, this simulator is water resistant and great for indoor and outdoor training for the military, government forces, medical rescue, and private security. It is remote-controlled and simple to operate, and comes with an instructor interface tablet with simulation logs and self-diagnosis. Use it for high threat extraction training and realistic TCCC field training scenarios.

  1. Tactical Combat Casualty Care Simulator with Traumatic Amputations – TCCS 3

A full-body TCCC simulator for training combat trauma care for traumatic amputation injuries that are above the left elbow and above the left knee along with an amputation at the upper right thigh above the tourniquet line. Highly durable in the toughest training scenarios and water resistant, this simulator is great for indoor and outdoor training. With its lifelike tissue, it is great for training of hemorrhage management and airway control, high threat extraction training, and realistic TCCC field training scenarios.

  1. Tactical Combat Casualty Care Simulator with Traumatic Amputations and Gunshot Wounds – TCCS 4

This full-body simulator is great for training for multiple traumatic gunshot wounds (like sucking chest wounds) and amputation injuries above the left elbow and the left knee. Like the others, this is highly durable and water resistant, and great for training of hemorrhage management, airway control, high threat extraction training, and realistic TCCC field training scenarios.

  1. Tactical Combat Casualty Care Simulator with Abdominal Evisceration – TCCS 5

A full-body simulator good for training combat trauma care for abdominal wounds with evisceration and a traumatic amputation above the right wrist. Highly durable and water resistant, and great for external hemorrhage and airway control, high threat extraction training, and realistic TCCC field training scenarios.

  1. Tactical Combat Casualty Care Simulator with Gunshot Wounds – TCCS 1

Another full-body TCCC simulator for combat trauma care training of gunshot wound management, hemorrhage management, airway management, and trauma management related to the casualty’s breathing and circulation. Highly durable and water resistant, and great for hemorrhage management, airway control, high threat extraction training, and realistic TCCC field training scenarios.

  1. Tactical Hemorrhage Control Trainer – THCT

This one is a full-sized, remotely-activated simulator for point-of-injury, tactical medicine training for law enforcement and first responders. With realistic and anatomically-accurate soft tissue, durability, and water resistance, this simulator has remotely-activated pulsatile bleeding, multiple injuries like gunshot wounds, stab wounds, and crushing injuries, and an amputation on the left leg above the knee for tourniquet application.

  1. CPR Module for REALITi360 Patient Monitor Simulators

This one is a CPR module with detailed real-time visual feedback on CPR quality. A sensor keeps track of the rate, depth, and release of each compression, and the system evaluates CPR time, correct chest compressions, pressure depth status bar, pressure posture, and pressure CPR rhythm. The system can be worn on the wrist, deployed on a manikin, or even placed inside a manikin.

  1. Hemorrhage Control Arm Trainer P102

A trainer for hemorrhage control on the upper extremity with realistic wound and bleeding simulation. Affordable and great for training of bleeding control and management of traumatic arm injuries. It has a deep laceration/stab wound, a large caliber gunshot wound, and a junctional wound in the shoulder.

  1. Simulated Patient Monitor – REALITi Plus

A patient monitor that is a smart, integrated, and modular simulation ecosystem and lets medical educators run multiple scenarios – from basic to sophisticated. It is mobile, so you can conduct training anywhere- whether it’s an ambulance, a helicopter, a hospital, or a skills lab. 

For meticulous tactical combat casualty care training with the help of simulators, call us at 02632 257259 or drop us a mail at sem@semtrainers.com today!

How Simulation-based Learning is Revolutionizing Nursing Education

Shyam Gajrani / / Clinical Skills, Equipment, Medical Simulation, Medicine, Nursing Education, Simulation-based Learning

Nurses are the heart of healthcare. With that in mind, it is intriguing to discuss the benefits of a simulation-led approach to nursing education.

Through the inclusion of role-playing, devices, trained persons, trainers, environments, and lifelike manikins, promoting learning and eliminating risk for the trained and the novice alike, simulation-led learning creates the perfect opportunity for learners to acquire necessary nursing skills in a safe environment. This also offers the added advantage of building critical decision-making skills by simulating various real-life scenarios. Affected slightly by the level of fidelity, simulation-based learning for nursing education can have a range of benefits.

  1. Hands-on Learning

While it is detailed and complete, theoretical learning can quickly become boring for a group of learners eager to become skilled professionals. Simulation-based learning solves this problem. Not only does it provide learners a way to learn specific skills by actually practicing them, it lets them do so in a safe environment.

  1. Immediate Feedback

A multitude of simulators is designed to provide real-time feedback for the learner’s performance (often through a screen or through lifelike response to stimuli). This feedback can then be used to further improve a learner’s prowess in specific skills. And it all happens in a safe environment, successfully avoiding the risk of causing harm or inconvenience to real patients. Additionally, people learn better when they aren’t afraid of making mistakes.

  1. Learning through Repetitive Practice

Practice makes perfect. Besides, with something as important as nursing, repeated practice builds skill, instills confidence, clarifies the fundamentals, and prepares the learner for stepping into a real clinical setting.

  1. Building of Important Skills

    Simulation allows learners the opportunity to practice caring for patients in ways that they cannot in the real-life hospital setting. Through several studies, it has been found that simulation-based learning for nursing education has a positive impact on knowledge acquisition, psychomotor skills, self-efficacy, satisfaction, confidence, critical thinking skills, and communication skills. It does all that within a safety net.

From mass casualty and wound care to mental health and end-of-life care, nursing skills education benefits from the adoption of a simulation-based approach to learning.

Benefits of a Simulation-Based Approach to Nursing Education

Teaching nursing skills through simulation involves a lot of role-playing and playing out realistic scenarios using actors and manikins. A student can pretend to be a patient, a nurse, a healthcare assistant, a manager, a student, a doctor, or even an angry relative. Imagine that as a student, you are pretending to be a nurse tending to three patients and receiving a call from the relatives of one of them. Think about what skills you would take home from that experience. No matter what scenario plays out, the result is improved patient care skills for everyone involved in the scenario. Simulation-based training is effective at bringing on the following changes in learners:

  • The ability to think on their feet
  • Refined communication and management skills
  • Acute decision-making skills
  • Confidence in their nursing abilities
  • The ability to work under pressure
  • Improved knowledge of nursing skills
  • Visibly improved technical skills
  • Stronger leadership skills
  • Developed self-confidence and attitude/aptitude for nursing
  • Students are exposed to rare clinical situations
  • Students are able to practice clinical reasoning skills

Other Miscellaneous Benefits

Other than the obvious benefits to the learning process and the learner, there are some other benefits to the nursing education system as a whole:

  • Enhanced patient safety and quality
  • Learners can manage patients without posing risk to actual humans
  • Controlled and safe learning environment
  • Structured feedback
  • Faster time to competence
  • Fills the gap in faculty/clinical site resources

Additionally, simulation-based nursing-skills training avoids inefficiency due to the following during training:

  • Feeling awkward for getting in the way of nurses’ work
  • Getting flustered by an unexpected situation or care instruction
  • Experiencing difficulty in adapting to training because many parts were not covered in school

It can safely be said that a simulation-based approach to nursing skills training lays the foundation for a student-centred learning paradigm. So owing to the array of benefits that it brings with itself, simulation-led training has secured its place in nursing skills training as an indispensable asset. And with further advancements in the technology, it may open up newer horizons of learning in nursing and other aspects of healthcare.

Simulators from SEM Trainers

If you’re looking to purchase medical simulators for the purpose of nursing skills training, your search ends here, because SEM Trainers is the #1 provider of premium-quality simulation products sourced from Germany, USA, Japan, and Europe.

Why Choose SEM Trainers & Systems for Medical Simulation?

Shyam Gajrani / / Medical Simulation

Why SEM Trainers – We, as a remarkable organization, are successfully engaged in putting forth the best quality Medical Simulator Training. All the manikins are accurately developed by veteran professionals with the use of supreme quality raw materials and the latest technologies. Known for their remarkable features, our manikins are used as an important medium in medical appliances for training purposes. Apart from this, all offered manikins can be easily purchased at highly competitive prices from us.

Making your students prepare for the real world, we provide a variety of medical simulation dummies, simulators and procedure trainers. Appropriate for use by surgeons and diagnosticians, and including models for vets, our selection of realistic and top-quality medical dummies for simulation helps students to get essential virtual feedback on their skills.

Exemplary for use in field rescue situations or, in the classroom, our patient simulation and medical mannequins are the best choice for any institution looking to offer their students risk-free and actual hands-on experience.

You will appreciate the convenience of having the life/form Simulator Training to teach several medical procedures. You can try it of any size for group demonstrations and practice sessions. Each student can realistically practice administering using the lifelike models.

Medical Simulation Manikins for Surgical and Nursing Procedures

We provide a complete range of simulators to aid in the teaching of key processes and practices. Offering products sourced from the USA, Japan and Europe, our range of premium simulation products are suitable for all teaching requirements. These units get student physicians familiar with performing a range of basic and advanced operations, from inserting a catheter into a woman’s urethra to performing knee-joint arthroscopy.

Whether for a CPR or First Aid class or final-year university medical training, our patient simulation dummies are a resourceful teaching resource sure to be a vital part of any curriculum. Professionally-designed to give the perfect realism in terms of material, movement, and reaction, our medical manikins can give students confidence and the apt skills in starting an IV, performing a tracheotomy or rescuing a person who has drowned in the water.

Features of our Medical Simulation Manikins

They are easy to use and understand with a smooth finish and are also highly interactive. They are guaranteed new manikin simulators from reputed USA/Europe/Japanese brands at the best affordable prices. We guarantee you that there is no fake labelling and we do not use cheap manikins. There are no second hand refurbished manikins supplied as “NEW’’.

We also guarantee we do not entice you with large discounts and then sell refurbished second hand repaired reputed brands. We provide you original manikins, labels, cartons, and manuals of original manufacturers. Next, in “why SEM Trainers” article, we will discuss the expertise that our brand possess.

Our Expertise

We have the latest knowledge of technology resources in Medical Simulation, Simulation-Based Medical Education Methodologies, Scenario-Based Training Methodologies, Design Guidelines Clinical Skills Laboratories, and Post Sales Workshops, Installation, Demos, Training, Repairs. We are the only company in India giving you all Manufacturers Simulators under a single roof.

We are well aware of our contribution to CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and thus, we promote CME (Continuous Medical Education). It focuses on realism to staff training and accuracy to their medical skills at Ground to Rural Hospitals. We also provide medical training and cost effective manikins for a better medical training environment to all possible extent in different rural areas.

SEM Products and Services

Now, in why SEM Trainers article, let’s look at some of our products and services.

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Why is SEM Trainers Unique?

We understand the struggles involved in saving lives in hospitals or disaster sites. Saving a life starts with the proper knowledge, suitable training practices, and appropriate learning and training equipment. We acknowledge the supreme value of quality and excellence, the prime importance of affordability to all, combined excellence in quality, and appropriate training equipment and suitable affordability.

We provide the perfect and most comprehensive range of appropriate training equipment and have the highest world-class quality ISO-DIN 9001 Quality Certification Standard and Worlddidac Quality Charter. We offer our products and services at comparatively lowest costs and to your door by delivering anywhere in India.

We ensure the highest medical safety, portability, durability and medical fidelity and we are also Certified by world-renowned agencies to be “within limits for toxic and carcinogenic contamination and emissions.’’

Other than that, we also provide lifetime access to the demonstration and installation of our products to all the medical professionals, so that they can always have a manual ready to refer to in their future references.

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