How far will Operative Experience, Inc. (OEI) go to ensure a great customer service experience? For the USNS Comfort, they dispatched a team of technicians immediately, meeting the U.S. Navy hospital ship when it docked stateside at the Port of Miami during an international deployment. OEI’s team of service professionals stand head and shoulders above the competition, clocking in with better customer satisfaction, appreciable minimization of downtime, and superior product expertise. Read the full article.

According to the CDC, the maternal mortality rate for the United States in 2023 was 18.6 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. On an international scale, this places the US at 55th, just behind Russia (17 per 100,000) and just ahead of Ukraine (19 per 100,000). When women of color older than 30 are considered as a subset in the US, their rate of mortality in childbirth is four to five times as high as that of Caucasian women. One specific area of complication for these women is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Can simulation-based training help turn the tide? Read the study.

It is surprising to learn that women who suffer cardiac arrest outside of a hospital receive bystander CPR less often than men, even though it is a proven intervention associated with improved rates of survival. According to research, women received CPR in 39% of witnessed instances of collapse whereas men received CPR in 45% of their cases. That may not sound like much, but it definitely impacts survival with men surviving at a higher rate.

Stop the Bleed training has emerged as a critical public health initiative, teaching everyday citizens how to respond effectively during bleeding emergencies. At the heart of this life-saving program is simulation-based learning – a powerful educational approach that transforms theoretical knowledge into practical, reflexive skills. Let’s explore how simulation is revolutionizing Stop the Bleed training and why it matters.

Prolonged Field Care (PFC) represents a critical evolution in military medicine, addressing scenarios where evacuation to higher levels of care may be delayed for hours or even days. This approach has become increasingly relevant in modern warfare, where combat operations often occur in austere environments far from traditional medical facilities. In conventional military medicine, the “golden hour” principle emphasizes rapid evacuation to surgical facilities.

This past month, Operative Experience made medical and military history with its groundbreaking and innovative simulator, the Prolonged Casualty Care Female Simulator (PCCS Pro), the first of its kind to be accredited by the U.S. Army. To ensure that women service members receive appropriate and quality medical care in the field, the Army has placed PCCS Pro Female mannequins in all 23 of their Medical Simulation Training Centers (MSTC). These centers provide realistic battlefield and pre-hospital care training for military members. 

With one of the largest single procurements of training simulators to date, the Department of Defense (DoD) is equipping the Air National Guard (ANG) with the most ruggedized, high-fidelity human patient simulators on the market today. Operative Experience, Inc. (OEI) will begin equipping 90 Air National Guard sites with high-fidelity Tactical Casualty Care Pro Series (TCCS Pro) simulators, designed to meet the latest Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) training requirements mandated by the DoD.

Last year, OEI Chairman and CEO, Lou Oberndorf established the Oberndorf Clinical Artificial Intelligence Scholars Award at the University of Florida, the college’s first-ever AI-focused award. The award creates an endowed fund that will be disbursed in perpetuity as a monetary prize for second-, third- or fourth-year medical students working on AI-focused team research projects.

OEI’s Tactical Casualty Care Simulators, and OBGYN simulators RealMom, and the C-Celia suite of emergency obstetrics simulators for C-Section, postpartum hemorrhage, and hysterectomy training are the most advanced simulators on the market today.

There is a never-ending demand for high-quality patient care. Yet, there continues to be a widening skills gap caused by the early retirement of seasoned healthcare workers. MedPage Today stresses that this shortage is not a novel issue. A paper in Nursing Economics from 2010 estimated that more than 1 million registered nurses would retire from the workforce between 2010 to 2030 and take years of knowledge with them.

On the battlefield, care providers have what is called a “golden hour’ to apply their life-saving skills at the point of injury before handing off to a fully equipped military field hospital.

Senior Military leadership are warning that future conflicts with near-peer adversaries such as China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and others will create a “tyranny of distance” that will impair the quick evacuation of wounded combatants to a higher level of medical care. This creates a Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC) situation for Service Members.

By Harlyn HeathThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes maternal morbidity as the “unexpected outcomes of labor and delivery that result in significant

OEI Chairman and CEO, Lou Oberndorf provided early momentum to the Society for Simulation in Healthcare’s SSH Fund recently, when he announced a four-year $50,000 commitment to add to the Oberndorf Endowed Lecture Fund. 

Operative Experience Inc. is no newcomer to simulation-based training. In fact, it began on those very shoulders of earlier generations of simulation-based pioneers. OEI’s Chairman and CEO, Lou Oberndorf, has a long history of pioneering in patient simulation.

We take a look at how that history has helped mold Operative Experience into a healthcare simulation leader with a passion for innovation.

The United States military is the largest in the world. Ensuring that more than one million service members build the requisite knowledge, skill, and proficiency