By Belinda Lowe (@Belinda_J_Lowe) & Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) Minimally invasive surgery has become the gold standard for many surgical procedures. It’s easy to see why when patients recover faster, have less postoperative pain and reduced hospital […]
By Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) The ‘neurosurgery resident’ had just entered the simulation. He was rude and arrogant, and oblivious to the other trauma care priorities for the patient. The emergency team continued with their intubation. […]
By Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) and Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) We’ve previously highlighted the safety risks related to healthcare simulation on the ICEnet Blog, inspired by the work of Dan Raemer and colleagues at the Foundation for Healthcare Simulation Safety, […]
By Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) “But its not like real life… I mean, you can’t tell from the manikin what the patient really looks like…..” That’s not a real quote, but rather a synthesis of hundreds […]
By Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) The translation of new knowledge to clinical practice has a significant time lag, in part due to the challenge of clinicians keeping up to date with the huge amount of clinical […]