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🩸 Stopping the bleed before help arrives 🩸This systematic review looks at how laypeople can apply publicly accessible to...
22/01/2026

🩸 Stopping the bleed before help arrives 🩸

This systematic review looks at how laypeople can apply publicly accessible tourniquets using simulation models. It compares different tourniquet designs and explores how training and point-of-care aids (like visual cards or audiovisual prompts) influence success rates.

Findings highlight that:
✅ Windlass and ratcheting tourniquets (e.g. CAT, SOFT-T, RMT) are most effective in lay hands
✅ Formal bleeding control training and simple point-of-care aids significantly improve correct application
✅ Public access tourniquet programs, especially when paired with education, could help reduce preventable deaths from hemorrhage

Read the full article here: https://advancesinsimulation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41077-025-00390-y

20/01/2026

High performing team thrives on a shared purpose.

A/Prof Eve Purdy discusses the importance of shared purpose within our simulation teams.

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Have you seen this VSA resource? 📘A simulation lesson plan on Nursing Management of Seizures is now available in the VSA...
19/01/2026

Have you seen this VSA resource? 📘

A simulation lesson plan on Nursing Management of Seizures is now available in the VSA Resource Library. Designed for Graduate Registered Nurses, this resource provides a structured, evidence-based approach to preparing clinicians for managing seizure emergencies across any clinical setting.

Explore the resource in the VSA Resource Library: https://vicsim.org.au/resources/simulation-resources/scenarios

🗣️ Not just what you say, but how you say it 🗣️This essay explores how micro-communication skills can help simulation ed...
14/01/2026

🗣️ Not just what you say, but how you say it 🗣️

This essay explores how micro-communication skills can help simulation educators co-create psychological safety with learners. Moving beyond scripts and debriefing frameworks, it focuses on the subtle ways our words, tone and body language shape the social fabric of simulation-based education.

Key ideas include:
✨ Psychological safety as a relational, co-created experience
✨ Using phatic communication, humour, body language, empathic check-ins and pacing to support learners
✨ Balancing stretch and support so learners feel both challenged and safe enough to take risks

Read the full article here: https://www.johs.org.uk/article/doi/10.54531/SATA2045

📌 Poster Highlight - 2025 Victorian SIMposiumThis poster from Western Health and the University of Melbourne presents a ...
12/01/2026

📌 Poster Highlight - 2025 Victorian SIMposium

This poster from Western Health and the University of Melbourne presents a systematic review exploring how Safety-II principles are being applied in anaesthetic translational simulation. Rather than focusing solely on error prevention, Safety-II emphasises learning from what goes right (the everyday adaptations and strengths that keep patients safe).

Across 24 included studies, the team found that while many simulation activities implicitly enact Safety-II through exploring work-as-done, strengths-based debriefing, and multidisciplinary engagement, few label or report these practices explicitly. The review highlights an opportunity to strengthen future simulation design by capturing successful adaptations, sampling routine work, and pairing Safety-I “find-and-fix” approaches with Safety-II “find-and-fortify” methods.

This work provides a practical, strengths-focused roadmap for integrating Safety-II into anaesthesia simulation to support safer, more resilient systems.

08/01/2026

A better designed space reduces job strain.

A/Prof Andrew Petrosoniak discusses the impact of the spaces we work in on our clinicians, job strain and retention.

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🎥 New for VSA Subscribers!Andrew Petrosoniak’s keynote presentation - Designing for the future: Using simulation to crea...
06/01/2026

🎥 New for VSA Subscribers!

Andrew Petrosoniak’s keynote presentation - Designing for the future: Using simulation to create elite clinical environments - from the 2025 Victorian Translational SIMposium is now live on the VSA website. A practical, systems-focused talk that highlights how simulation can drive safer, more resilient healthcare.

Explore the resource in the VSA Resource Library: https://vicsim.org.au/resources/simulation-resources/scenarios

Team simulation and safer births in Tanzania 🤰🏽🌍A new prospective observational study from the Safer Births Bundle of Ca...
04/01/2026

Team simulation and safer births in Tanzania 🤰🏽🌍

A new prospective observational study from the Safer Births Bundle of Care (SBBC) in Tanzania links frequent team simulation training with a substantial reduction in maternal deaths. Across 30 facilities and more than 280,000 births, the program combined in situ team simulations, data-driven quality improvement and local facilitator training.

Key findings include:

✅ Maternal deaths fell from 240/100,000 to 60/100,000 births after SBBC implementation
✅ More simulation sessions were associated with a 23% reduction in maternal deaths the following month
✅ More recurring participants in simulations were associated with a 16% reduction in maternal deaths the following month

Read the full article here: https://advancesinsimulation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41077-025-00387-7

🌏 Sim events this month - January 2026 🌏Looking to connect, learn, and be inspired through simulation? Here are some upc...
01/01/2026

🌏 Sim events this month - January 2026 🌏

Looking to connect, learn, and be inspired through simulation? Here are some upcoming events happening around the world this month:

📅 10-14 January - IMSH Society for Simulation in Healthcare
📍 San Antonio, Texas, USA
Unbound. Register here: https://imsh2026.org/

Whether you’re attending in person or online, there’s something here for every simulation educator and healthcare professional.

Check in monthly to hear about more simulation events near you.

🎥 New for VSA Subscribers!Georgina Poole’s keynote presentation - Beyond the incident: Practical tools to learn from wha...
26/12/2025

🎥 New for VSA Subscribers!

Georgina Poole’s keynote presentation - Beyond the incident: Practical tools to learn from what goes right - from the 2025 Victorian Translational SIMposium is now live on the VSA website. A powerful, practical session for anyone working in clinical education or team development.

Explore the resource in the VSA Resource Library: https://vicsim.org.au/resources/simulation-resources/scenarios

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