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Right: Students from the University Andres Bello School of Medicine, IV grade, during a trauma medical simulation in the Tactical and Emergency Care Simulation Center of the Chilean Navy Naval Hospital in Viña del Mar. The training was hosted by Chilean Navy instructors in trauma and emergency care using their new iStan® and METIman® human patient simulators. Below: Northwest Mississippi Community College showcased its new nursing facility and high-fidelity simulation center at a dedication ceremony in April. Pictured, Pam Briscoe, simulation specialist, poses with METIman.

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HANNAFORD CENTER CELEBRATES FIRST YEAR The Hannaford Center for Safety, Innovation and Simulation opens its doors to clinicians, hospital residents and students.

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CHILEAN NAVY SIMULATES COMBAT CASUALTIES Armada de Chile hosts 155 students from nine countries in a weeklong field simulation.

15 METI’s HPS® was featured at the opening of the Experimental Centre for Technical Medicine of the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands. Technical medicine is a new discipline at the university that links science and technology with the clinical practice of medicine. Pictured, left to right, Chris Caporali and Marco Grit of METI, Prof.dr.ir G. van der Steenhoven, Dean of Science and Technology at University of Twente, and Benno Lansdorp, MSc., Teacher/Researcher with the center.

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IMPROVING ORGAN DONATION WITH SIMULATION OneLegacy of Los Angeles, CA employs a new, simulated brain death physiology to improve organ recovery and save more lives.

Q AND A WITH WILLEM VAN MEURS The internationally renowned human physiological modeler talks about his next project, the birthing simulator. UK SIMULATION IN NURSING EDUCATION CONFERENCE The University of Surrey in Guildford hosts a simulation conference focused on patient safety. EDUCATOR: INNOVATOR The UK’s University of Huddersfield is known as a Center of Excellence for simulation training. SIMULATION IN MOTION – SOUTH DAKOTA These 44-foot, mobile units are taking high-fidelity simulation training to rural hospitals and every EMS service in the state. MALAYSIA’S FIRST SIMULATION IN NURSING CONFERENCE Nilai University College will host the first Asia Pacific Simulation in Nursing Conference in Malaysia this October. UPCOMING SIMULATION EVENTS: FROM MAINZ, GERMANY TO THE METI CUP HPSN Europe announces keynote speakers, the METI Cup and upcoming regional networking events.

On the Cover: A military field training operation with CAE Healthcare’s trauma patient simulator known as Caesar®. Healthcare Simulation News is published quarterly by CAE Healthcare at 6300 Edgelake Drive, Sarasota, FL 34240. Telephone: (941) 377-5562. Send your feedback or article ideas to Kim Cartlidge at kcartlidge@meti.com. Copyright 2011 by CAE Healthcare. All rights reserved.

SIMULATION BRIEFS HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS

CAE Healthcare Acquires METI

Global Leader in Flight Simulation and METI Join to Create World-Class Healthcare Simulation Organization

CAE Healthcare manages the University of Montreal healthcare simulation center.

CAE Healthcare, a division of CAE, acquired METI in late August. CAE is a global leader in modeling, simulation and training for civil aviation and defense with more than 60 years of experience in the simulation industry. In 2008, the company launched CAE Healthcare to leverage its knowledge, experience and best

practices in simulation-based aviation training to deliver innovative education, technologies and service solutions for healthcare. “METI is a premier organization. We welcome the METI team, and we look forward to providing our new and existing customers with the most innovative, best-inclass training solutions and continuous service support,” said Marc Parent, CAE’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Former METI CEO Michael Bernstein has assumed the role of President of CAE Healthcare. “The opportunity to become part of CAE, the de facto standard in the world of simulation, is great for our employees, our customers and for the healthcare community as a whole,” says Bernstein. “We will be able to take the healthcare simulation industry to an entirely new level.” The combined offering

includes several product lines, such as CAE Healthcare’s surgical and imaging simulators, its rugged military “patient” named Caesar, METI’s HPS, iStan, METIman, PediaSIM, BabySIM simulators and METI’s learning applications and LearningSpace management solution for simulation centers. CAE Healthcare will continue to manage the simulation training center of the University of Montreal, which trains undergraduate medical students. CAE Healthcare's main operations are Sarasota, Florida, USA and Montreal, Canada. The mission of the combined company is to improve patient safety and outcomes by advancing the adoption of simulation in every segment where it can make a difference.

PRINCE WILLIAM RESCUES iStan AT UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the University of Calgary's Ward of the 21st Century Research and Innovation Centre in July. During the tour, iStan®, CAE Healthcare’s wireless patient simulator, mimicked a heart attack. Prince William, who is a search and rescue pilot with the Royal Air Force, applied shock with defibrillator and chest compressions. iStan recovered, and said, "Thank you for saving me, Your Royal Highness." Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntos

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HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS Maine MEDICAL

New Frontiers in Simulation:

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Addresses Future Healthcare Needs

ess than one year after opening, the Hannaford Center for Safety, Innovation and Simulation at Maine Medical Center serves a clinical and student population of nearly 5,000—and has long-term plans to expand its expertise to the community, the state and the northeast region. Carved out of the former Brighton Medical Center day surgery building, the center’s 18,000 square feet offer three levels of medical simulation. The simulations include skills training, standardized patient assessment and interaction, and high-fidelity scenarios that might occur in an OR, Trauma/ICU or in a hospital patient room.

THE HANNAFORD CENTER FOR SAFETY, INNOVATION AND SIMULATION AT MAINE MEDICAL CENTER TRAINS BOTH CLINICIANS AND MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDENTS

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Maine MEDICAL HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS

“We developed a boot camp for residents designed around four common scenarios they would see in-house. They do these four cases before they begin to take their night calls — common things that happen at night at a large hospital, such as a code.” — Shelly Chipman, RN, MSN, CCRN, Simulation Nurse Educator at the Hannaford Center for Safety, Innovation and Simulation

The largest tertiary and acute care hospital in the state, Maine Medical Center opened the simulation center as part of a forward-thinking strategy to invest in the future of high-quality, safe and effective healthcare in Maine. The center provides its high-tech training to both novices and experienced clinicians, who can also practice their communication skills and the interdisciplinary coordination of care. Maine Medical Center’s pediatrics staff trains at the simulation center once a week, while the emergency medicine, anesthesiology, OB-GYN, surgery and nursing departments visit monthly. New internal medicine residents undergo “boot camp” there before their first time on the hospital floor for night call rotations. The daily bustle of activity at the training hub is no surprise to Medical Director John “Randy” Darby, MD, who championed the center for years and led the interdisciplinary committee that created its business plan. Darby, who is also an anesthesiologist and member of faculty at the Tufts University School of Medicine, visited 26

simulation centers around the U.S. and abroad to learn what worked and didn’t work. he planning committee at Maine Medical Center included architects, engineers, clinicians, IT and purchasing specialists who immersed themselves in the nuts and bolts of simulation education. “Many programs are dominated by clinicians,” Darby says. “By having a multidisciplinary team, it made the planning process much more rigorous and thorough.” On the clinical side, Darby says, “It was critically important to have a plan to engage faculty and develop curricula. We identified simulation champions early on and tasked them with looking ahead three to five years in their fields.” These simulation champions became the pioneers for the program, visiting Harvard, Stanford, the Mayo Clinic, Northwestern and other simulation centers to learn how to design and implement simulation-based courses. “The real success was being able to engage our faculty from the day the doors

opened,” Darby says. “We worked extremely hard to develop fairly robust simulation-based education programs from the get-go in a dozen specialties, including nursing and allied health.” Maine Medical Center partners with Tufts University School of Medicine in a program created to help address the shortage of physicians in the state, particularly in rural areas. These students, who split their time between the Boston campus and Maine Medical Center, are also learning through simulation. The center cost $5.8 million to build, which included gutting much of the third floor of the former surgery center. The rehab incorporated the existing hospital infrastructure in the highfidelity simulation rooms. The operating budget is fully supported by Maine Medical Center, another unique feature that was integrated into the business plan. “Many centers operate on a shoestring,” Darby says.

ruce Cahill is the systems analyst at the Hannaford Center, where he oversees the audio/visual

system and vast complex of computers and monitors, as well as the LearningSpace® management program. “We have over 60 cameras throughout the facility. It’s not uncommon to have a classroom filled with 20 learners and to be able to pull up virtually any room in the facility with just a few clicks.” Cahill says. “The learners like the transition from traditional PowerPoint presentation and e-learning mediums to the hands-on muscle memory practice and enforcement of psychomotor skills that our facility offers. They are also impressed by the ‘realness’ of the highfidelity environment that we create for the training scenarios.” Within the next few years, the center’s outreach programs will begin to deliver simulation training to rural areas throughout the state. “We are very much hoping to join the vanguard of people using simulation to enhance and sustain rural healthcare training, which dovetails nicely with the mission of our medical school program,” Darby says.

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HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS OneLegacy

New Frontiers in Simulation: Advancing Life-Saving Organ Transplants ONELEGACY IS ONE OF THE LARGEST ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATIONS (OPOS) IN THE UNITED STATES, AND ONE OF THE BOLDEST. THE LOS ANGELESBASED ORGANIZATION WORKS WITH HOLLYWOOD WRITERS AND PRODUCERS TO DISPEL MYTHS ABOUT ORGAN DONATION THROUGH DONATE LIFE HOLLYWOOD. THE ROSE BOWL PARADE FLOAT PROMOTING ORGAN DONATION, INITIALLY MET WITH SKEPTICISM, HAS PROVEN TO INSPIRE THE PUBLIC.

ONELEGACY SIMULATION CENTER EMPLOYS UNIQUE BRAIN DEATH PHYSIOLOGY AND TRAINING TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANT

his year, OneLegacy opened the first simulation center in the nation with a focus on organ donor management. The goals of the center are to offer technical and conceptual training, improve knowledge and comfort level in managing organ donors, enhance donor safety and reduce errors, which leads to a higher number of organs transplanted. When an accident or trauma victim is declared brain dead, there is a short window of time when that donor’s vital organs have potential to save lives. Today, more than 21,000 patients in the U.S. await lifesaving heart, lung or liver transplants. An additional 90,000+ are on a waiting list for life-enhancing organs, such as kidneys. The OneLegacy simulation center is set up as a fully functioning ICU with a METI HPS® named Bob. Within the center, the staff practices assessing and improving the functionality of organs for transplant. “In brain death, the physiology changes,” says Maria Stadtler, RN, CPTC and Director of OneLegacy Simulation Center. “Because the brain function is gone, and the brain is the command center of the body, all the organ functions are out of balance. Physiological feedback and reaction to medications given are different in a brain dead patient than in a life-patient situation.” In collaboration with AQAI, which is METI’s consultant team based in Mainz, Germany, OneLegacy has developed brain death physiological donor profiles and scenarios that can be layered with the victim’s trauma condition and played out in real time.

Above: OneLegacy’s METI HPS®, nicknamed “Bob,” enacts an organ donation scenario in the OneLegacy Simulation Center. The center will open its training to other organ procurement organizations and clinicians later this year.

Learn more about OneLegacy at www.onelegacy.org Check out the Donate Life Hollywood campaign at www.donatelifehollywood.org.

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OneLegacy HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS

“Brain death is associated with complex hemodynamic, endocrine, and metabolic dysfunctions which can lead to major complications, which, if untreated, can lead to loss of valuable organs for transplant. When we used the life-patient physiological models, we hit a wall as to the ‘realistic’physiological feedback in our donor management training,” says Stadtler.

ob also facilitates communication training for the center’s Family Care Specialists. One practice scenario involves communicating with the distraught family of a donor around the bedside, which is not uncommon. “We’re the bridging link between the family, the hospital, and the transplant center. Ensuring that the family has all the information that they need to give consent for organ and tissue donation is essential,” Stadtler says. “This responsibility is something we take very seriously.”

The OneLegacy Simulation Center will open its training to other OPOs and clinicians this fall, and welcomes tough cases. The center has begun to replicate real-life donor cases, such as the scenario of a 19-year-old with a gunshot wound who coded. “We are training to extreme donor situations with the goal to identify, recognize, and intervene early enough so we can avoid these situations. We are programming the whole profile and customizing it with real-time settings,” says Stadtler. OneLegacy is breaking new ground in simulation with the aim of saving more lives. Still, organ donation remains a sensitive and challenging subject. “Without people who believe in the mission of organ/tissue donation, we could not do it, and METI has been one of our biggest supporters,” says Stadtler. “If we all work together we can inspire more people to donate and save more lives.”

Top: OneLegacy’s Maria Stadtler sets up “Bob” at Donate Life Hollywood film festival, where she, Dr. Cynthia Tinsley, and Richard Kuschinksy demonstrated neurological testing for brain death. “It was feisty and brave, but it was so well received,” Stadtler says. Bottom: OneLegacy organ procurement transplant coordinators run through a practice scenario with “Bob.”

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The Armada de Chile Combat Casualty Care Course (C4) took place in July at Fort Aguayo, Chilean Marines Camp, in Con-Con, Province of Valparaiso, Chile

NEW FRONTIERS IN SIMULATION:

Armada de Chile Engages Medical Responders with Realistic Training

In July, the Armada de Chile conducted its seven-day Combat Casualty Care Course, also known as C4, with 155 students from nine countries, including Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Honduras and Spain. The Chilean Navy offers the course in cooperation with the Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute (DMRTI) at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Fifty-two instructors from the Armada de Chile and other military branches, the Chilean Red Cross, the Chile Emergency Public Health Service and DMRTI conducted tactical field care, evacuation care and care under fire simulation exercises. The Chilean American C4 was the first course of its type offered on the continent, and the first to incorporate simulation training. In addition to owning the first iStan in Chile, the navy trains on METI’s ECS® and METIman simulators. Since 2003, 1,000 students have participated in the C4 field exercises, lectures and skill station training. The Chilean version of C4 is unique in that it trains across the spectrum of combat care, from medics to Special Forces officers, in order to facilitate teamwork and “train the trainers.” Chilean Ministry of Defense leaders attended and learned about the importance of medical simulation.

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Q & A WITH DR. WILLEM VAN MEURS HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS

NEW FRONTIERS IN SIMULATION: MODELING HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY An Interview with Dr. Willem van Meurs

• DR. WILLEM VAN MEURS IS ONE OF THE LEADING MODELERS OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY IN THE WORLD. He was invited to serve on the original team that created METI’s HPS®, the only human patient simulator that has oxygen and carbon dioxide gas exchange. Today, van Meurs is a key developer of the 13 physiological models that operate concurrently in METI simulators. A long term consultant to METI (now CAE Healthcare), van Meurs is in the process of launching an academic research operation affiliated with CAE Healthcare at a European University.

Why use mathematical models of physiology in patient simulation? If you want to represent even moderately complex systems, you need models to provide realistic and consistent evolution of clinical signs and monitored signals. Such evolution can be spontaneous or in response to therapeutic interventions. What is unique about the METI models you co-developed? Their number, and their interactions. A more subtle aspect is that you can manipulate the physiology of the patient. The instructor can say, “I want to represent valve disease,” and then manipulate a familiar physiological parameter. Other simulators mainly rely on instructor or script control of signs and signals. They have a limited set of models that don’t necessarily interact. Is suspension of disbelief important in simulation? In full mission simulation of high performance tasks, the patient needs to react like a real patient. Otherwise, suspension of disbelief may be lost, and the trainees may no longer

behave as they would in the real clinical environment. If the simulation is unrealistic, you may also create a false sense of confidence. You are now modeling a birthing simulator with CAE Healthcare and Dr. Diogo Ayres de Campos, a renowned obstetrician and faculty member at the University of Porto. Can you elaborate? It is an important group of patients and healthcare providers, but the realism in obstetric simulators lags Dr. Stefan Mönk, Dr. Willem van Meurs and Hugo Azevedo, behind on other areas of acute members of CAE Healthcare’s senior level development team, collaborated on new projects in Sarasota in July. care. For example, worldwide there are more women dying of postpartum hemorrhage I would like to see models that You helped create the first than of AIDS. Realistic simulaallow you to look inside the advanced human patient tors may help train providers to simulator at the University of patient—to look at oxygen address such emergencies. inside the heart or in the brain. Florida in the early 1990s. We’ve done small experiments What has been the impact of What are the challenges in the simulation on patient care? in that area. What also fascifield today? nates me is how people think We’ve contributed to establishThe people who design simula- ing a safety culture in anesthewhen managing life and death tors are a relatively small group sia and intensive care. Training situations. If they only have five today. What we currently call minutes, they don’t have time on real patients and making high-fidelity will hopefully, 10 to go back to books. They have mistakes has become less to 15 years from now, be called acceptable. We know we have to make quick decisions based mid-fidelity or low-fidelity. The on limited information. We may saved lives through better challenge is to come up with a training. need a new visual language for good process for linking educaacute care physicians that tional objectives to simulator helps them think through Looking ahead, what are requirements. those situations. future advances you would like to see in simulation?

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HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS UK CONFERENCE

Conference Wrap Up Report University of Surrey in Guildford Hosts UK Simulation in Nursing Education Conference

his year METI in partnership with The University of Surrey hosted the 5th Simulation in Nursing Education Conference with the theme “Patient Safety and Simulated Learning: Two Sides of the Same Coin?” The conference opened with a dynamic and thoughtprovoking keynote by Dr. Ian Curran, Dean of Educational Excellence and Head of Innovation at the London Deanery. Curran made the links between professional learning, excellence in practice and safety. Master Classes were introduced this year with four innovative and charismatic facilitators who over the conference explored different facets of simulation ranging from Tom Doyle’s (METI) exploration of partnering with industry to Sharon Elliot’s (University of the West of London) thoughts on how to really implement those simulated practice hours into the curriculum. These continued with Linda Daniel (Barnsley Primary Care Trust) leading on paediatric simulations at the point of care with the final class led by Dr. Tim Smith (Union University, Tennessee) who focused on how to start a simulation center. On day two the delegates were treated to more innovative workshops and poster presentations ranging from mental health, palliative care to strategies about improving safety. Ian Ballard and Tracy Clayton (METI

UK) facilitated a roundtable discussion about the role of simulation technologists and are hoping to establish a network in the UK and to host a special event in the future. The second day began and ended with two very different keynotes. The first by Dr. Tim Smith, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing from Union University who not only inspired the whole audience with his thoughts on transforming education but also gave an innovative demonstration on how to fold a tee shirt in less than 10 seconds! Norman Woolley, Head of Teaching and Learning at The University of Glamorgan and Rachel Webster who practices at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals concluded the conference by talking about safe medication practice. Surrey and METI were delighted that two simulation societies ASPiH and INACSL were able to talk about their work and this really showed how nursing is leading the way in developing simulation as a teaching methodology and the conference reflected and celebrated this. For more information about the UK Simulation in Nursing Conference and presenters, visit hpsn.com. Submitted by Amanda Wilford, Manager of International Services, Nursing and Allied Health for CAE Healthcare.

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2011 EDUCATOR INNOVATOR HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS

THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD HUDDERSFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM atching her grandchild at play, Angela Hope, senior lecturer and practice and skills coordinator for the University of Huddersfield’s School of Human and Health Sciences, was struck by how much we humans learn through play. “Children practice simulation when they play. The learning process is very fundamental and critical to child development; it must be nurtured,” she said. “Our nursing students often say that learning through simulation is simply fun.” About 200 miles north of London, the university enrolls roughly 270 nursing students a year in a three year course of study. The university’s Simulation Suite encompasses the entire first floor of a large building. Inclusive in the suite housing an iStan and PediaSIM®, are rooms for nursing fundamentals, critical care, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, pediatrics, midwifery studies and an operating theater. So successful is the Simulation Suite that the University of Huddersfield is

referred to in the region as a Centre of Excellence for simulation training. “The simulators have truly emerged as a critical teaching tool and are fully integrated into our curriculum,” Hope noted. In fact, the strategies for simulation use in nursing education are being widened into school-wide learning strategies for simulation, she said. Members of the core nursing education team are pursuing doctoral studies into simulation education with significant research, evidence and published papers exploring the theories of how one learns through simulation. The role and job description of “simulation technician” also is being developed, with exploration into a post graduate teaching certificate in the Practice of Simulation within various allied health fields. “Simulation is a tool that is taking education and learning — in a safe environment, in real time with a ‘real’ patient — to such a fantastic level,” Hope stated. “There really is no limit to the possibilities.”

Opposite page, from top: A simulated bicycle accident rescue, CAE Healthcare Chief Learning Officer Thomas Doyle, Keynote Speaker Dr. Ian Curran from the London Deanery, Patrick Van Gele, International Ambassador captionINACSL UK conference page caption UK conference and Amandaacross Wilford CAE Healthcare, Conference Co-Chair. across pagecaption UK conference

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HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS SIMULATION IN MOTION: SOUTH DAKOTA

iStan, PediaSIM and BabySIM Tour the Mount Rushmore State

What’s bigger than a bloodmobile, travels on wheels and houses an entire patient simulator family?

A SIM South Dakota traveling simulation lab. SIM South Dakota, a partnership between the South Dakota Department of Health and five hospitals, began delivering high-fidelity simulation instruction to rural emergency services providers over the summer. SIM South Dakota’s mobile simulation labs are not the first in the U.S., but they cut the widest swath in simulation training outreach. The goal of the program, according to Administrator Sandra Durick, is to provide clinically contemporary education to every rural hospital ER and every Emergency Medical Service throughout South Dakota. The program aims to improve the quality of emergency healthcare services in the state. “This is very unique in how it’s set up, from the mobile learning lab floor plans to the way we are delivering education through the use of simulators in the lab,” says Durick. “Most projects don’t cover an entire state.” The three mobile units are 44-foot, custom-built trucks that were produced by Rosenbauer America in South Dakota. While the back of each emulates an ambulance, the front portion is an emergency room with sliders that can expand the space to 12 feet. The middle section serves as a control room. Each unit houses two METI iStans, two PediaSIMs and two BabySIMs®.

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Two smaller vehicles transport simulators on request for onsite training. The labs offer seven adult, three pediatric, and three baby scenarios to healthcare providers and volunteers who may only see a critically ill patient once or twice a year. The training increases confidence and competency while enhancing teamwork among emergency response and hospital personnel. “As fascinating as the trucks are, it’s the educational programming that is the backbone to the whole project,” Durick says. The educational programming includes scenarios such as cardiac arrest, anaphylactic shock, and respiratory distress. The mobile simulation labs are housed at three hospitals: Regional Health in Rapid City, and Avera Health and Sanford Health, both in Sioux Falls. Two smaller outreach vehicles are located at Mobridge Regional Hospital and St. Mary’s Healthcare Center in Pierre. “We have seen fabulous results,” says Durick. “We’ve had phenomenal response from the EMS community and the rural hospital ER personnel, including physicians.” Learn more about SIM South Dakota at www.sim.sd.gov.

ASIA PACIFIC SIMULATION CONFERENCE HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS

ASIA PACIFIC SIMULATION IN NURSING CONFERENCE October 15-16, 2011 SIMULATION IN NURSING EDUCATION CONFERENCE FOR STUDENTS October 17, 2011

NILAI UNIVERSITY COLLEGE TO HOST ASIA PACIFIC SIMULATION IN NURSING CONFERENCE

Nilai University College, Malaysia Register at hpsn.com

CAE Healthcare’s first Asia Pacific Simulation in Nursing Conference will take place at Nilai University College in Malaysia on October 15 and 16. The conference, titled “Engaging Learners to Become Great Nurses,” will offer patient simulation demonstrations, research results and ideas for instructors who are beginning to incorporate simulation classrooms. On October 17, top nursing students from universities throughout Malaysia will attend a one-day simulation conference for students. The purpose will be to demonstrate hands-on learning with high-fidelity patient simulators. An international team of renowned simulation experts will deliver keynote lectures, including Dr. Toyoaki Yamauchi, Professor at Nagoya University in Japan, CAE Healthcare Chief Learning Officer Tom Doyle, Madam Gnaneswari Subramaniam, head of the Nilai University College Nursing Department and Professor Donna Mead of the University of Glamorgan, UK. The conference is being presented in collaboration with Kinetik Edar and Nilai University. One of the largest tertiary education providers in Malaysia, Nilai University College is located on a picturesque, 105-acre campus and draws international students from 50 countries.

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HPSN 2012 February 28—March 1, 2012 Tampa, Florida Register today at hspn.com

Real Time. Real Students. Live Action Interact with the world’s best and brightest leaders in patient simulation at the HPSN 2012 conference. More than 1,000 expert educators, clinicians and learners attend each year. Witness live scenarios with students, brainstorm and network with peers and gain a global perspective.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

More than 100 Active Workshops and Sessions The METI Cup Critical Care Skills Competition Grant Writing Assistance for Simulation The Second Annual METI Video Awards Exhibit Floor with New Product Showcase Opportunity to earn CEUs Best of all, HPSN is FREE! Register today at hpsn.com

CALL FOR SESSIONS: Are you a healthcare simulation innovator? Share your expertise and creativity by becoming an HPSN 2012 facilitator. The deadline for proposals is September 30, 2011. Learn more at hpsn.com.

EVENTS CALENDAR HEALTHCARE SIMULATION NEWS REGISTER FOR HPSN EVENTS AT HPSN.COM

International Events 2011 ASIA PACIFIC SIMULATION IN NURSING CONFERENCE “Engaging Learners to Become Great Nurses” October 15-16, 2011 Asia Pacific Simulation in Nursing Conference for Students October 17, 2011 Nilai University Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Featured Event

HPSN Europe 2011 Nov 26-27, 2011 Mainz, Germany HPSN EUROPE ANNOUNCES KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Organizers of the upcoming HPSN Europe conference in Mainz, Germany have announced two of the event’s keynote speakers. Bengt Littke, a program director with Saab Aeronautics, will speak on “Lessons from the Aviation Industry.” A former fighter pilot with the Swedish Air Force, Littke was recently appointed senior advisor within Gripen Marketing. Jan-Joost Rethans MD, PhD, and associate professor with Maastricht University, will deliver a lecture titled, “The Standardized Patient.” In 2010, the Association of Standard Patient Educators (ASPE) honored Rethans with its Outstanding Educator Award. Rethans coordinates the Master Phase Skillslab programme of the Faculty of Health Medicine & Life Sciences (FHML) at Maastricht University. In addition, Dr. Willem van Meurs, CAE Healthcare modeler and investigator with the University of Porto Institute for Biomedical Engineering, will offer a session on the design of model-driven simulators. HPSN Europe is a free, two-day conference that provides networking with healthcare professionals from around the world.

HPSN Europe 2011 “Assessment through Simulation” Nov 26-27, 2011 Mainz, Germany Erbacher Hof Akademie & Tagungszentrums des Bistrums HPSN 2012 February 28-March 1, 2012 Tampa, Florida, US Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina Call for sessions deadline is September 30, 2011.

North American Regional HPSNs 2011 South Central Regional HPSN October 14-15, 2011 The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Norman, OK Northeast Regional HPSN 2011 Oct 20-21, 2011 Baystate Health Education Center Holyoke, MA

The METI Cup 2011 October 17-19, 2011 2011 Air Medical Transport Conference St. Louis, Missouri This annual critical care skills competition utilizes the latest in human patient simulation provided by CAE Healthcare and METI. The following 11 teams will compete in this year's challenge. Cleveland Metro Life Flight University of Michigan Survival Flight STARS Native Air - Omniflight University of Mississippi Medical Center Aircare Life Force Air Medical Air Care and Mobile Care — University of Cincinnatti Carilion Clinic Orlando Medical Institute Lifeflight of Maine Medflight

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Does Healthcare Simulation Play a Starring Role at Your Institution? Send us a short, creative video about how you use METI simulation, and we’ll post it online. The video that receives the most votes between now and January 31, 2012 will win a $500 cash prize. We’ll show the top three videos at the international HPSN 2012 conference in Tampa, Florida. Learn more about the METI awards at hpsn.com.