UT Southwestern (UTSW) has recently received recognition and national distinction for “patient satisfaction, patient safety, and quality of care” from various reviewing bodies. A crucial element contributing to this success is its Environmental Services (EVS) department. Quality environmental services, in turn, are a direct result of rigorous training. In a move to introduce innovative immersive […]
Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) is a leading resource on cardiac pacing and electrophysiology. MedVR Education is building the world’s largest XR healthcare library for training and assessments and leading the way in providing quality healthcare training. Both have combined their efforts to develop a VR curriculum for Heart Rhythm VR. This is poised to be […]
With the aim of eliminating instances of CLABSI infections, MedVR Education and Texas Children’s Hospital came together to develop a VR training program that provides clinical staff practice in identifying and preventing cases of CLABSI. CLABSI, or central line associated blood stream infection, is preventable yet thousands of deaths occur every year. In the United […]
What is MedVR Ed Connect? MedVR Ed Connect allows you to connect to a VR simulation training session via your PC/laptop. It enables users to be part of a virtual reality simulation training without having to don a headset. This PC based application allows participants, both educators and students, to join multiplayer VR simulation sessions […]
‘The stage is all yours and you are in charge. Make choices and moves as you consider appropriate. In the end you will get a debriefing of your performance.’ This is MedVR Ed’s VR open scenario assessment for healthcare skills. What is an open scenario assessment? If you are familiar with popular open world games […]
Can VR play a role in building muscle memory? It is a case of a road accident. The victim is severely injured, unconscious and not able to breathe on his own. As an emergency room nurse, you need to immediately perform an endotracheal intubation procedure. Do you have the time to stop and think about how to insert the laryngoscope? […]
The nursing profession involves a wide range of skills, performing assessments being one of the very important ones. Needless to say, assessments have to be fool-proof because it is based on these assessments that many future lines of treatment are based. It is like laying a solid ground-work before the structure is erected. One small […]
Objective of the study The objective is to study the implementation Patient Room Cleaning training in VR among environmental service professionals in a hospital set up. User groups The user groups in this study include professionals of the Children’s Medical Center Environmental Services, Dallas. What were the training requirements? A reduction in training time and […]
What is phlebotomy? According to the Oxford dictionary it is ‘the opening of a vein in order to remove blood or put another liquid in’. The term has a Greek origin with ‘phlebo’ meaning vein and ‘tomy’ meaning ‘to make an incision’. The practice of phlebotomy has been around for centuries and was once performed […]
