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Tuesday, April 2, 2024   (1 Comment - view/add)
Nesting for Spring: A Spring Cleaning Tip »
by Scott Crawford, MD, FSSH, CHSOS, SimGHOSTS Board Member Spring is upon us. The trees are starting to bud, the birds ar...
Friday, June 17, 2022   (1 Comment - view/add)
How to Make a Nail Trephination Task Trainer »
Introduction Primary Care Leadership identified a need for skills and procedure training designed for newly hired Advan...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022   (2 Comments - view/add)
How to Make Moulage Tattoos »
Introduction In the world of healthcare simulation, it is important to provide as many visual and audible cues to the lea...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022   (1 Comment - view/add)
How to Make a Paronychia Drainage Task Trainer »
Primary Care Leadership identified a need for skills and procedure training designed for newly hired Advanced Practice Pro...
Thursday, February 3, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
How to Make a Toenail Wedge Resection Task Trainer »
The need for a Toenail Wedge Resection Trainer arose when one of our customers – a local university – began to realize how...
Monday, January 10, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Sim Hacks: Making Wound Task and Foreign Body Removal Trainers »
Introduction Primary Care Leadership identified a need for skills and procedure training designed for newly hired APP (Adv...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
How to Make an Adult Manikin Compatible with Performing an Escharotomy »
With each passing year, a fresh cohort of Emergency Department Fellows will begin utilizing our facility and its services....
Friday, February 19, 2021
Tips, Tricks & Hacks - Silicone Repair Technique »
by Scott Crawford, MD, FACEP, CHSOS, FSSH, SimGHOSTS Board Past President and Treasurer Many manikin and task trainer sk...
Friday, February 5, 2021
SimPad Quick Fix »
by SimGHOSTS Board member Nick Brauer SimPad Quick Fix Problems with a SimPad? Does it power on? Has it been dropped...
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Ouch! Replacing SimMan 3G's Broken Neck »
Blog post by SimGHOSTS Community Director Nick Brauer Ouch! Replacing SimMan 3G's Broken Neck While Laerdal’s SimMan...
Monday, February 10, 2020
Declutter Your Simulation Center - Doing More with Less »
By SimGHOSTS Board member Dr Scott Crawford Healthcare simulation spaces are one of the most unique work environmen...
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Practical Technology for the Technology Enhanced Scenario - and a Physiology Refresher (Part 2) »
By SimGHOSTS Board Member Scott Crawford, MD CHSOS   This article will continue a discussions from a  p...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
A Train the Trainer Model Chalks up New Successes in Africa »
Training room, Dar Es Salaam.   Karima Khalid can feel the beads of sweat on her forehead, her pulse quicke...
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Practical Technology for The Technology Enhanced Scenario – and a Physiology Refresher (Part 1) »
By SimGHOSTS Scott Crawford, MD CHSOS Readership for these articles is split between those with a clinical/healthca...
Thursday, March 21, 2019
3 Steps to Tracking Finances and Budgeting for Simulation Equipment »
by SimGHOSTS Board Member, Dr. Scott Crawford   The INACSL Standards of Best Practice: SimulationS...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
What You Need to Know Before Starting a Major AV Project »
The process of purchasing an AV system is complex and requires a lot or preparation, planning and communication to achieve...
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Wish you could control four computers with one mouse? »
Meece, Mice, Mouse. Before getting started I want to personally thank my co-worker, Xavier Agee, for taking the lead on...
Friday, January 4, 2019
Can Medical Devices be Hacked? Arizona Doctors Prepare for Possibility of Cyberattack »
by Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com   Image credit: Dr. Christian Dameff, (background center) applauds at t...
Monday, December 10, 2018
New Open Source Software from Kitware Virtualizes Medical Education and Training »
by Sandy McKenzie, Kitware Image credit: Kitware Kitware added to its collection of open source toolkits wit...
Monday, November 5, 2018
How to Find Simulator Statistics »
By Guest Author Michelle Claypool Many times for projects or just pure curiosity, you want to see some statistics on y...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Sphygmomanometer (BP Cuff) Adjustment »
By SimGHOSTS Board member Nick Brauer   Do you have a faulty sphygmomanometer in your simulation lab that needs...
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Laerdal Plenary Session: Using xAPI to Collect Learning Data from Simulations from Chad Jackson »
At SimGHOSTS 2018 USA, returning Gold Sponsor Laerdal Medical provided support for a special plenary address from Chad Jac...
Monday, April 16, 2018
Repacking Items: A Look at the Difference Between Supply Cost and the Cost of Time/Labor. »
By Todd Hillman The potential to reduce cost in a simulation or skills lab of any health care discip...
Monday, December 4, 2017
How to Organize your Regional Simulation Network with Airtable »
By SimGHOSTS Operations Manager Kirrian Steer -  Author note – I declare that I have no affiliation with Airtable....
Friday, October 27, 2017   (0 Comments - view/add)
Bring life back to your mannequin! - Easy fix for Gaumard in Pulseless Electrical Activity »
By SimGHOSTS President Dr Scott Crawford   Has your Gaumard Hal or Susie lost its pulses? No, not because it...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Get Real - How to Increase the Realism of Your Healthcare Simulations »
Blog post by SimGHOSTS Community Director Nick Bauer Get Real - How to Increase the Realism of Your Healthcare Simulati...
Monday, February 13, 2017
Organize your Sim Center with Airtable »
Blog post by SimGHOSTS Training Director Kirrian Steer Organize your Sim Center with Airtable Some of you who attend...
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Medical Innovations: Surgical Planning with 3D Printing »
Lead author Wade Aubry, M.D of an article published by  Stratasys , reports that literature supports the claim that f...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Hot Topic: Manikin batteries! How to Replace An Overheating Medical Simulator Battery »
Blog post by SimGHOSTS President Scott Crawford, MD, CHSOS Hot Topic: Manikin batteries! How to Replace An Overheating...
Monday, November 14, 2016
Modifying Third Party Pads for Laerdal's AED Trainer 2 »
Modifying Third Party Pads for Laerdal's AED Trainer 2 During a meeting at Epworth Health (Melbourne Australia) wi...
Monday, September 12, 2016
Blood Pressure Cuff Hack »
Has your blood pressure cuff gone missing from your favorite simulator? What? You have misplaced how many? Before forking...
Monday, July 18, 2016
Easter Eggs...in Laerdal's LLEAP Software »
  Wikipedia defines Easter Eggs as “An intentional inside joke, hidden message, or feature in an interactive wor...
Monday, June 27, 2016
Multidisciplinary In-Situ Training - The Gem of Healthcare Simulation Education »
    If you are working in the hospital setting environment, the Multidisciplinary (Inter-professional...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
How to Use Mobile Phones to Increase Healthcare Simulation Mobility »
Cell phone confederate: Communication from control room to standardized patients or confederates is important and o...
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Recreating The Wheel »
  Simulation often requires operation folks to think on their feet and act immediately. Due to time constraints...

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