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National Women's History Month 2024
Exploring pivotal women in medical history, this article commemorates Women's History Month by highlighting their groundbreaking contributions to healthcare and the advancement of medicine.
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Breakthrough medical development could significantly reduce number of pregnant women having unnecessary or ineffective surgery to prevent premature births
Task trainer specialist Limbs & Things has partnered with leading obstetricians to help address inconsistencies in a common surgical procedure to prevent pre-term births.
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Women in Science
On 11th February 2024, we'll be celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Read our article today to discover the journeys made through science by some of our Limbs & Things team.
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The Importance of the Cardiorespiratory Physical Examination
Read below to uncover why the Cardiorespiratory Physical Examination is such an important part of patient care.
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Why blood donation makes a difference
What are the facts about blood donation?
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Affordable augmented reality set to get under the skin of medical training with a 3D training experience
Medical professionals will now be able to see what’s going on inside the body as well as outside when they are training on simulation manikins thanks to an innovative new product launched by Limbs & Things.
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Double Win for Limbs & Things
Winners at the inaugural South West Masters Awards 2023.
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The Use of Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning
AR technology is changing the pace of medical training.
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Movember - A Focus on Men's Health
November is a time when we focus on men’s health, thanks in part to Nonprofit Organizations like Movember, Men’s Health Network, and the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month
A look at the "facts" and stats around Breast Cancer.
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The Bridge Between Classroom & On-The-Job Learning: SimWeek
This week is the annual Healthcare Simulation Week, where we celebrate simulation’s impact in healthcare education.
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EMS Training That Builds Competence & Saves Lives
From essential skills to advanced training, simulation for EMS training helps to boost competence and confidence.
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Training & Treatment for Osteoarthritis: Joint Injection
As we age, our joints and their surrounding tissues can begin to degenerate, a condition known as osteoarthritis. This can cause pain, stiffness, and swelling, and often decreasing mobility in the affected joint.
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EMS and Maternity Training
Paramedics are trained to deal with a wide range of situations; they must be ready for whatever awaits at the scene of the job. However, as the number of paramedics being called out to out-of-hospital-births is on the rise, are paramedics prepared to care for those in labor?
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Limbs & Things expands portfolio with acquisition of eoSurgical
Highly portable laparoscopic trainers & advanced software joins the L&T product family.
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Assisted Vaginal Births: An Underutilized Practice?
Over the past several years there has been an increase in Cesarean Sections (C/S) around the world. The risk of complications is greater with a C-Section and requires a significantly lengthened recovery time for mom. There is currently a push to re-introduce the use of assisted or operative vaginal delivery as a safe alternative to second stage C/S.
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Limbs & Things - HealthTech Business of the Year
Winners at the Go:Tech Awards 2023
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Men’s Health Week 2023
“The purpose of men’s health week is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and give health care providers, public policy makers, the media, and individuals an opportunity to encourage men and boys to seek regular medical advice and early treatment for disease and injury.”1
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Racism in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Over the past few years there has been a heightened awareness of racial disparity in maternity care provided by developed nations. Despite this awareness, disparate care continues to occur and even grow in some regions. Recent literature on the topic shows that the underlying issues point to either explicit or implicit racism.
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Nurses Month 2023 | “You Make a Difference”
This year, the American Nurses Association is honoring nurses for the whole month of May using the theme “You Make a Difference.”
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International Perspectives on Caesarean Birth
Around the world, there is an emerging focus on the growing rates of C-sections being performed. Read our article to find out more.
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Perineal Repair: Improving Knowledge, Confidence, and Skills
Evidence shows that 85% of women experience a perineal injury. With this in mind, it is imperative that obstetric practitioners have the skills to master perineal repair.
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Limbs & Things Launch New Partnership With TruCorp
Limbs & Things has signed a multi-million pound contract with Northern Ireland based medical simulator company TruCorp. The contract makes Limbs & Things the exclusive supplier of TruCorp products in Canada, USA, UK and Australia.
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A New Chapter In Healthcare
The new challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic continue to affect today’s healthcare workers.
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Limbs & Things lends a hand to Bristol homeless charity, BOSH
'Tis the season of giving, and for the past two years, Limbs & Things have been supporting BOSH, a charity based in Bristol, to help give back to the city that has helped our business thrive.
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Men’s Health Awareness 2022 at Limbs & Things
The globally recognized Movember campaign, started in 2004, has progressively brought about an increased awareness of health issues specific to men including prostate and testicular cancers, as well as the importance of exercise, mental health, and the prevention of suicide.
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Metro Mayor Norris visits one of Bristol’s biggest exporting successes for International Trade Week
“They really are helping to save patients’ lives - here in Bristol and around the world”: Metro Mayor visits one of Bristol’s biggest exporting successes for International Trade Week
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Training to Prevent Erb’s Palsy; A Mission Close to Home
We hear from our PROMPT Flex Product Manager on what it's like to live with Erb's Palsy and how training for shoulder dystocia can improve new-born outcomes.
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Limbs & Things Helps Charity Train War Doctors With Birth Simulators
Bristol-based medical task trainer manufacturers Limbs & Things has been supplying its birthing simulator to the David Nott Foundation to train doctors in war zones around the world for the past three years and has now helped the charity train over 1,080 medical staff in areas of conflict.
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From Concept To Production To You: How Our Innovations Get To Your Door
A behind the scene look into how Limbs & Things create world leading medical simulation devices from concept to full-scale production.
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Healthcare Simulation Week – September 12th-16th, 2022
“Excellence in a New Era” #hcsimweek22
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Using Medical Simulation to Improve Venous Access Skills
In the USA alone, there are more than 300 million peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVC) sold each year “with at least 80% of all hospitalized patients receiving some form of infusion therapy.
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Growth of the Physician Assistant Profession in Healthcare
'Physician Assistants are are working to fill the gaps created by physician shortages and the changing healthcare needs'
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The Importance of Training in Chest Tube Placement
"It is not uncommon that both adult and pediatric patients might need a chest tube to resolve a pneumothorax. Chest drains were needed for more than two million adults in the United States (US) for one year."
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The Importance of Proper Training for the Infant Hip Exam
“Only 50% (of Pediatricians) practiced in an institution that endorses a care pathway for DDH”
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Does Medical Simulation and Team Training Improve Patient Outcomes?
Since the mid 1990’s, healthcare simulation has incorporated team training to improve patient safety, building on lessons learned from the aviation industry.
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Deliberate Practice with the Surgical Female Pelvic Trainer for gaining and maintaining competence in OB/GYN Laparoscopic Surgery
Minimally invasive surgery, also known as Laparoscopic surgery, was first used on animals in the late 1800’s. A German surgeon, George Kelling, first applied the technology to humans, publishing his results in 1910(1).
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How Epidurals Are Used To Safely Reduce Pain
Many people have heard of an epidural, either as part of a surgical or birthing experience. Also known as a “nerve block”, the epidural can be used to provide relief from chronic pain.
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Relieve the stress of skin and vein replacements
Our patent pending new IV arm range removes all the frustrations of replacing skins and veins.
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Performing Lumbar Puncture Safely
Procedures that involve needles in the spinal area often cause apprehension in patients and novice providers who must perform the procedure. It would be highly reassuring to know that the person performing the task has done it many times and is confident in their skills.
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Increasing Rates of Caesarean Section: Implications for Training
Although there have been significant improvements in the techniques and skills needed to perform a Caesarean section in the past few decades, learning these skills takes time and persistent practice to master.
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Pre-hospital Emergency Care and Patient Safety
Patient safety in hospitals has been studied internationally for the past 20 years. Global reports indicate that more than 12% of patients incur an adverse event while hospitalized, 70% of which have been deemed preventable.1 What has not been studied as extensively is patient safety in the prehospital emergency care environment.
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The Use of Blood in Trauma Simulations
For most people, the sight of blood is alarming and frightening, especially if that blood is caused by a traumatic injury to someone we love. For health care teams, the sight of blood triggers the need for action, the need to assess and stabilize a patient.
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What Does it Take to be an Emergency Medicine Consultant Doctor in the UK?
Led by the General Medical Council (GMC), the UK has a very transparent medical education infrastructure. The GMC has set standards and requirements for curricula that applies to every specialty. Their standards include excellence in the design and delivery of medical education and includes both technical and non-technical skills
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Using approved Limbs & Things Products for ATLS skills stations
Traumatic injury is a major global public health issue, accounting for more than 5 million deaths per year.
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Nursing in the Post-Covid World: Has Everything Changed?
Nurses make up more than 50% of the healthcare workforce worldwide. They are on the front line working long shifts, caring for patients and families in hospitals and community settings.
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Meeting the brains behind the Colles' Fracture Reduction Trainer
In the first excursion of its kind, we visited the two masterminds behind the Colles’ Fracture Reduction Trainer. After a lengthy demonstration including three additional members of staff, Dr Salwa Malik and Dr Yasir Shaukat sit down at the Princess Royal Hospital with Limbs & Things to discuss the journey.
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The Impact of Midwifery on Maternal Mortality
Over the past few years, there has been a global focus on decreasing maternal mortality rates (MMR). So much emphasis has been placed on these often-preventable deaths that the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a global target to increase equity in global MMR reduction.
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A Brief Review of 160 Years of Nursing
The term ‘Nurse’ is now globally recognized as a respected profession, but the practice has been around long before the official designation was given.
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The Use of Ultrasound in Clinical Simulations
Healthcare has evolved tremendously over the past 20 years. One of the main reasons for this advancement is the development of technologies that improve the ability to correctly diagnose and treat patients.
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Learning the skills associated with lumbar puncture and epidural
When thinking about getting a needle stuck in our back, most of us would likely feel a little anxious and have a few questions about the need for such a procedure. What would be highly reassuring is to know that the person performing the task has done it many times and is confident in their abilities.
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The importance of properly diagnosing distal radius fractures
Most of us know it as a broken wrist, but the medical term is a distal radius fracture. Most interesting is that the bones of the wrist, the carpal bones, are not generally where the break is, but usually about one inch from the distal end (toward the wrist) of the radius bone (the larger of the two arm bones).
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Joint Injections for Pain Relief
Joint pain, called arthralgia, can be either short term or chronic. It may be accompanied by inflammation, swelling, and tenderness at the site. One thing that cannot be denied is that joint pain can adversely affect daily activities of life, even to the point of debilitation.
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Improving the Visual Estimation of Blood Loss
It is common that healthcare professionals encounter bleeding in patients they are caring for, creating the need for quick decision-making.
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Why training is so important when learning venipuncture
The use of Peripheral intravascular cannula (PIVC), more commonly called peripheral Intravenous (IV) lines, is not a new concept, as they were initially experimented with as early at the 1600s. Some of the earliest publications relating to IV access was during the Cholera epidemic of the 1830s, when saline was used with dying patients.
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The Importance of training in the roll out of a mass vaccine
The COVID-19 virus has dominated our thoughts, actions, and routines for nearly a year now. The creation of a vaccine, prioritized for rapid distribution, is now ready for the masses.
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New product range: Venipuncture Arm Range
The new and improved Venipuncture Arm Range from Limbs & Things facilitates the teaching of venipuncture, IV cannulation, and IV infusion for all levels of training.
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Importance of cervical cerclage to maintain successful pregnancy
For most women, pregnancy is a time of anticipation and change. Emotions of joy and anxiety collide as hormone levels increase to accommodate new life. But, for some women, the fear of miscarriage is ever-present.
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How Urinary Catheterization Trainers Can Save 13,000 Patients a Year
Urinary tract infections are among the most common Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI), accounting for 13,000 deaths each year. Even more concerning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approximately 75% of all urinary tract infections are associated with the presence of a urinary catheter.
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Simulation training for improving technical skills in obstetric emergencies
In maternity care, most maternal deaths occur during the intrapartum period and most complications cannot be predicted. Timely diagnosis and appropriate response require considerable skill to prevent death.
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C-Section section: Procedure, statistics and solution
Cesarean delivery (also referred to as a C-section) is a surgical procedure used to deliver a baby through either vertical or horizontal incisions in the abdomen and uterus.
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The Importance of Uterine Compression Sutures
It is estimated that Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) may occur in up to 7.9% of women undergoing vaginal delivery and 6.75% of women delivering by cesarean section.
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Identification of labor stages through a Cervical Dilatation and Effacement module
In normal vaginal deliveries, cervical dilatation and effacement occurs as part of the labor process. Effacement is defined as the thinning of the cervix, and dilatation is the opening of the cervix.
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Proactive approach to prevent maternal deaths from PPH
Each year, more than 700 women die in the United States from pregnancy related complications; the highest number compared with other high-income countries. Over 77% of these cases are related to postpartum hemorrhage (PPH).
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Supporting training for obstetric emergencies with the PROMPT Flex Range
Shoulder dystocia is an unpredictable emergency complication that occurs during a vaginal delivery. Although in most cases the baby is safely delivered, where shoulder dystocia is not managed correctly it can lead to serious issues that can be detrimental to the health of both the mother and the baby.
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Care and cleaning of L&T products
With the outbreak of COVID19 many of our customers have requested more information about how to use and store our products safely
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New product range: Catheterization Trainer Range
Limbs & Things improved Catheterization Trainer Range facilitates the teaching of urethral and suprapubic catheterization for all levels of training.
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Margot Cooper wins the Innovation Award at Top 50 Most Ambitious Leaders
LDC Top 50 Judges presented our founder with the Innovation Award, specifically highlighting her ambition to transform a sector using fresh-thinking and bold ideas.
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Margot Cooper among Top 50 Most Ambitious Leaders
Great feature in Telegraph today. Margot Cooper is listed among LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders in the UK. The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders aims to celebrate exceptional UK entrepreneurs who inspire success.
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Erb’s Palsy - Better care at birth costs less
Although births are generally safe in the UK, not all of them are as safe as they could be. The PROMPT Maternity Foundation have launched a video about Erb’s Palsy called Better care at birth costs less, that we were proud to sponsor.
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Margot Cooper, founder of Limbs & Things scoops the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards Entrepreneur of the Year 2018
On Thursday 13 November during the Gala Awards Ceremony in London, the winner of the 17th Lloyds Bank National Business Entrepreneur was announced as Limbs & Things founder Margot Cooper.
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New ATLS 10th edition kit available
Early next year, the 10th edition of the renowned Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course from the American College of Surgeon (ACS) will become available. The ATLS is now taught worldwide and gives medics a systematic approach on how to care for trauma patients.