World-first collaboration rewards patients and clinical teams alike

By Anne Rutherford Simulation in health care is commonplace for learning or practicing skills but the value of simulation jumps to a whole new level when it brings clinical teams together to collaborate on creating standards of practice that will improve the quality of patient care. That’s exactly what happened recently when more than 35 participants across all specialties (surgery, anesthesia, perfusion and nursing) from the cardiac surgical team at Kingston Health Sciences Centre huddled for two days of simulations focused on the novel use of the GAMPT Bubble Counter. The simulation was the first of its kind in the world, says Chief Perfusionist Maggie Savelberg, who led the multidisciplinary effort with support from the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at KHSC and Queen’s University, Dr. Dimitri Petsikas, and

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