Laerdal Medical has opened a purpose-built training facility at its head office in Orpington, Kent. The new centre facilitates realistic, scenario-based learning in simulated prehospital and in-hospital environments, utilising Laerdal’s innovative patient simulators and training products together with hi-tech, interactive AV equipment.
Officially opened by Tor-Morten Osmundsen, chief executive of the Laerdal Company, Laerdal’s unique centre has already attracted a large number of supporters.
In his opening address, Tore Laerdal, chairman of Laerdal Medical, said: “This is very special day for Laerdal. By offering a venue in which medical and nursing students, ambulance staff, intensive care providers, midwives, anaesthetists and paediatricians can learn and practise, we are providing a valuable framework for enhanced learning with use of modern technologies.”
The new centre applies the Circle of Learning process, which, focusing on knowledge acquisition, skills proficiency, computer simulation, simulation in team training and clinical experience, is complementary with the Utstein Formula of Survival. This process has been implemented in other Laerdal training facilities in France and the US and in collaborative Laerdal Centres of Excellence in Norway and Italy.
