Medical Simulation News

A viewpoint from Prof. Jens Flensted Lassen, MD, Ph.D., thought leader, Interventional Cardiologist, and Clinical Director of Ischemic Heart Diseases, Department of Cardiology, Odense University Hospital.

For the last twenty years, Jens has been the team leader of 75% of the angio suites in Denmark, and he is one of the founders of the European Bifurcation Club.

Increasing the efficiency and proficiency of trainees in their procedural diagnostic programs, away from real patients.

The Technical University of Munich's (TUM) Interventional Neuroradiology (INR) department discusses with Philips Healthcare about using Mentice Virtual Patient simulation to reduce the learning curve for learners adopting neurovascular procedures. 

Kashif Ikram MSc. MA. MBA is a MedTech industry expert, and we reconnected with Kashif to follow up on his article in the 2020 Mentice Annual Report – What has changed in the past year?

Kashif has twenty-six years of working with renowned companies such as Zimmer Biomet, Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic, and Siemens Healthineers, and has vast experience and knowledge within the field. Kashif is the former EMEA Head of Corindus Vascular Robotics (a Siemens Healthineers’ company) and is currently Vice President at C-RAD AB (Sweden).

China scales up its efforts to be a Global Innovation Center for robotic-assisted image-guided interventions within Health care.

Sweden - Gothenburg, February 28, 2022. European Bifurcation Club (EBC), an esteemed medical organization specialized in the treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions, today announced their endorsement of advanced technical skills adoption and proficiency-based continuous learning. The endorsement is unique for Mentice patented VIST® G7+ Coronary Advanced training module that provides an approved patient-free learning environment for Interventional Cardiologists in the field of bifurcation stenting. 

The German Stroke School is a DGNR initiative to meet the increasing demand for Interventional Neuroradiologists (INRs) trained to perform Mechanical Thrombectomy (MT).

MT is a life-saving procedure in which a clinical device is introduced into the affected brain's vasculature to remove a blood clot mechanically. With several significant studies published from 2015 to-present, MT has been proven to be a highly effective and preferable treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Yet, access to this method is still limited. One of the primary reasons behind the limited access is the scarcity of INRs trained to perform the procedure.  

Siemens Healthineers to include Mentice VIST ® simulators with Corindus CorPath GRX Robotic PCI system (CorPath GRX) in China. 

We had the opportunity to speak to Healthcare Systems key opinion leader Prof. Dr. med. Marcus Katoh, MBA, Chefarzt - Institut für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie, Helios Klinikum Krefeld and Helios Klinik Hüls. Prof. Katoh was recently appointed as the new chairman of the board of The German Society for Interventional Radiology (DeGIR) and aims to represent all interventional radiologists and minimally invasive radiologists in the DRG, focusing on advanced training and quality assurance in interventional radiology practice.