One Million Lives - A Laerdal Podcast Laerdal

Join us as Dr. Pierre Barker, recognized expert in healthcare quality, provides vital insights into the current landscape of patient safety as seen through his own personal narrative. In 1999, The US Institute of Medicine report “To Err is Human” revealed sobering data on the loss of life in the US due to medical error. This ignited a call for systematic change and prioritization of patient safety throughout US healthcare and in other countries. But where do we stand today?
Dr. Pierre Barker answers that question for us. He is Chief Scientific Officer at the U.S. Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Offering a global perspective, he attended medical school in South Africa and has practiced pediatrics for more than 30 years in South Africa, the UK, and the US. He has worked extensively with the WHO to improve maternal and newborn outcomes. And he is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Always optimistic but equally direct, Dr. Barker shares how despite advances, healthcare still faces patient safety challenges as evidenced by gaps between evidence-based care and actual practice.

Two renowned leaders in healthcare education joined us at this year’s International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH). They are Dr. Janice Palaganas and Dr. David Rodgers. Listen as we hear their perspectives on two trending topics. Dr. Palaganas shared what it will take to further advance clinical simulation as teaching method. Dr. Rodgers spoke on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to augment a simulation program’s talent and resources.   
Janice Palaganas, Ph.D., holds positions as a Professor of Interprofessional Studies at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (MGH IHP) and as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Anesthesia. Her expertise—and her passion—lies in utilizing healthcare simulation for interprofessional education and optimizing simulation outcomes through diverse debriefing methods.  
David Rodgers, Ph.D., holds positions at Indiana University (IU), as Director for its Interprofessional Simulation Center in Bloomington and as an assistant professor of clinical medicine in the IU School of Medicine. With over 25 years of experience in simulation, Dr. Rodgers has a wide range of knowledge in sim center operations and educational program development. As a prolific speaker and researcher, his experience in using AI is compelling.

Join us as Dr. Nalini Singhal shares highlights of her lifelong journey in revolutionizing neonatal care. A renowned neonatologist and co-developer of the Helping Babies Survive programs, Dr. Singhal's work has trained over a million healthcare professionals worldwide. In this episode, Dr. Singhal discusses topics relevant to all of us in simulation like peer-to-peer learning, clinical outcomes, continuous quality improvement. She also makes it clear; technology is no substitute for helping learners learn.  
Dr. Nalini Singhal is a Professor of Pediatrics (neonatology) at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Steering Committee for Helping Babies Survive, and a member of the Canadian Neonatal Network (CNN) Governing Board. Dr. Singhal has spent the last 25 years helping to develop and implement simple programs like Essential Newborn Care for the WHO/AAP to help save newborn lives. And her interest in advancing global neonatal outcomes is unparalleled. 

This year's annual European Resuscitation Council conference brought a new and potentially very impactful collaboration: The ERC and the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations). Football, or Soccer, is the world's largest sport, both in terms of active players and spectators. In this special episode from the ERC conference, you will hear more about this unique opportunity for lay provider CPR training to ride on the back of organized football to increase survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
 

Hear Dr. Barry Isenberg, President-elect of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), share how the next stage in the growing importance of patient simulation will be about equating the benefits of simulation to bona fide clinical results.  
Dr. Isenberg is Director of the Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. In this podcast he presents an overview of some key milestones in the history of patient simulation. He then shows how those milestones and much of what the patient simulation community has learned has left the simulation community poised to take patient simulation to a new level, not only focused on educating learners but on improving patient outcomes.   

A “learning organization” is characterized by the value it places on curiosity. Learning organizations pursue an abundance mindset looking at problems as opportunities. In this way their curiosity fosters experimentation, vision, a commitment to mission and even a natural sense of optimism and self-confidence. Other types of organizations may adopt a scarcity mindset, emphasizing command and control, restrictive problem solving, and avoidance of perceived risk. Curiosity goes untapped.  
Hear how one simulation organization put curiosity first and grew to have an international presence in improving patient outcomes. In this podcast our guests Dr. Vijayanand Jamalpuri and Dr. Vinay Nadkarni introduce, PediSTAR, India’s renowned Pediatric Simulation Training and Research Society. Both doctors share how PediSTAR started out using simulation primarily for research. They had no idea that PediSTAR would soon grow from a small organization motivated by a sense of curiosity to become now a world leader in bringing simulation to others with remarkable life-saving results.