St George’s publishes all mortality data online
St George’s Hospital, Tooting, south London, has become the first NHS hospital in the UK to publish graphs of mortality rates online for all medical disciplines carried out at the hospital from the year 2000. The information, published six months after the trust published detailed statistics of cardiology mortality rates according to surgeons, are available online […]
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Robot baby helps medical students train
A Florida-based company is manufacturing interactive baby mannequins containing software that will emulate the vital signs of a three-to-six-month old child, so that medical students can practise on them. The BabySIM (above), the latest offering from Medical Education Technologies (METI), is much more sophisticated than a children’s toy. Not only does it feature tears, drool, […]
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