Laerdal Medical & SimX associate on VR medical simulation coaching

June 23, 2023 – Laerdal Medical, a supplier of simulation-based coaching within the fields of resuscitation, affected person care, and emergency care coaching, and SimX, a digital actuality (VR) medical simulation platform, have this week introduced a partnership to assist improve affected person security with a VR simulation coaching resolution that prepares suppliers to ship optimum care.

In accordance with the businesses, affected person simulation is a vital part of coaching healthcare suppliers for the realities of observe with out posing dangers to actual sufferers. Underneath the partnership, Laerdal will change into a foremost distributor of the SimX digital actuality simulation platform for hospitals, EMS, and authorities prospects within the U.S. and Canada.

“Laerdal’s mission helps save lives – and our purpose is to assist save a million extra lives, yearly, by 2030,” stated Neil Weber, President of Laerdal Medical North America. “SimX represents a frontrunner within the VR house and shares our mission of serving to save lives. With the assets and experience between our two organizations, we may help put together healthcare suppliers in hospitals, EMS, and the navy to offer high-quality care and positively affect affected person outcomes.”

Developed by clinicians for clinicians and educators, SimX immerses learners in a singular ‘holodeck-like’ expertise that enables them to deal with sufferers the identical manner they do in actual life. In accordance with SimX, college students, instructors, and observers can work concurrently across the similar digital sufferers, from any location. The corporate’s platform consists of 250+ present eventualities, together with the flexibility to tailor circumstances to organizations’ particular person coaching wants.

“This collaboration represents the subsequent evolution of VR simulation enlargement,” stated Ryan Ribeira, CEO and Founding father of SimX. “Between the SimX experience in VR and Laerdal’s credibility and market presence, we actually consider the sky’s the restrict in making an affect on affected person care by means of this immersive healthcare supplier coaching.”

To seek out out extra about Laerdal Medical and its simulation-based coaching options, click on here. To study extra about SimX and its VR medical simulation options, click on here. 

Picture credit score: Laerdal Medical / SimX