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The spread of simulation throughout the healthcare world has been a wonderful technique to improve education, teamwork, and patient safety.  Thousands of programs around the world are actively innovating every day to deliver high quality simulation sessions in a variety of settings with a wide array of educational goals.  Promoting this evolution must not stop, as the aspirations and achievements are truly remarkable.

However, there are dangers lurking.  As with anything new, unanticipated and subtle hazards exist and can be difficult to manage.  In healthcare simulation we are introducing programs with its array of real and simulated equipment, supplies, and medications.  We also bring a certain degree of deception, asking people to act as if things that are not real are true and things that are real are not.  All of these introductions are into a healthcare world that has its own difficulties maintaining a safe and error free environment.  The chance that this new world of simulation will lead to an accidental misuse of some simulated entity on a real patient or healthcare worker is real and worrisome.

On this website, we will try to present accidents and “near misses” from healthcare simulation that come to our attention.  We will try to use the collective wisdom of the field to present best practices and mitigation strategies to help the simulation community reduce the potential for harm.  Working together we hope to make the chance of a simulation related injury vanishing small.

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Simulation Safety Policies: Where to Begin?

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We were thrilled to read the recently published work by Dr. Victoria Brazil, emergency physician and medical educator, based on the Gold Coast, Australia. As the medical director of the Gold Coast Simulation Service, she leads in situ simulation programs in a wide range of settings. Dr Brazil, Clare Scott, Jack, Matulich, and Brenton Shanahan … Continue reading Simulation Safety Policies: Where to Begin?

Infection Safety: In-Person Simulation Activities

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Many simulation programs closed or limited their in-person simulation activities as the global Covid-19 pandemic began to spread throughout the world.  During this time, many simulationists provided invaluable service to their institutions via on-line, individual, advisory or other modalities.  In many places, in-person simulation activities are beginning to reopen, and the simulation community is developing … Continue reading Infection Safety: In-Person Simulation Activities

Simulation Supplies in a Pandemic

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Simulation professionals are providing valuable services during the COVID 19 pandemic, including PPE training, team practice, and systems testing.  Simulation programs have quickly responded to the need to provide virtual clinical experiences for students who are not allowed to work in the clinical environments. These strategies and tools have been generously shared online so that … Continue reading Simulation Supplies in a Pandemic

COVID-19 and Simulation Safety

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It seems like every hour provides new challenges in responding to the global pandemic of COVID-19.  Healthcare educators, including those practicing various forms of simulation, are being confronted with difficult decisions about their work.  Should we continue training? Should we close down our operations? What about converting to on-line simulations? Is using PPE for training … Continue reading COVID-19 and Simulation Safety

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