Hence the initiative was started, the services were developed as stand-alone services, but in the last 12 months, thanks to acceleration of the digital transformation has accelerated, we gained more knowledge and look at now the holistic customer journey, launching Laerdal Connect. Laerdal Connect is a secure online portal accessible from any web device, at your convenience, [...]

Healthcare is a high-stakes industry that is prone to crises. This is very much true for emergency medicine and anesthesiology. Healthcare providers must treat critically sick patients, while not being always 100% sure about the final diagnosis. Treatments are often begun in environments with limited resources under circumstances that are disturbing and disrupting (multiple sick patients at [...]

The concepts of diffusion, dissemination, and implementation are distinguished as progressively more active steps in the process of flowing valid and reliable research information into clinical practice. Using a staged model of behavior change, diffusion is seen as a precursor for dissemination activities, which in turn “predispose” physicians to consider change in their practices. Local implementation activities [...]

The LMU Hospital Munich recognises the importance of planning and preparing for large-scale emergencies and continues to carry regular mass casualty incident exercises even throughout the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The goal is to put current concepts into practice to ensure that hospital staff is well prepared in case of emergency. The organizational and financial burden of mass [...]

University of Stavanger (UiS) has recently applied to the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir) to achieve status as Centre for Excellent Simulation and eLearning – SIMeLEARN. The overall aim of SIMeLEARN is to develop and implement excellent, student-centred, innovative learning methods within simulation and e-learning to provide a superior education for future healthcare professionals, [...]

Clinical simulation (CS) is a very useful tool to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and real practice. It allows training professional skills in a safe environment for patients and also for professionals. The first time we heard about CS, we imagined large specialised centres with complex, highly technological environments, where  quasi-human mannequins allow recreating experiences that [...]