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When Mark Wiederhold, president of San Diego-based Virtual Reality Medical Center, decided to open a new east coast office in 2007, he chose Orlando for its established simulation industry. Virtual Reality uses simulation to treat mental-health disorders, aid physical and mental rehabilitation, and train health care providers. Its Orlando office has seven employees, one of whom is full time. The Orlando office, which develops materials simulating human tissue, makes four medical training kits: one which reproduces a gunshot wound and other wounds; another that teaches how to do a needle decompression procedure to relieve air pressure trapped in the chest; one to practice inserting a breathing tube; and the last to learn how to treat a bleeding extremity. Ranging in price from $5,000 to $10,000, the reusable kits contain simulated body parts and medical instruments. Read more at:
http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2010/03/22/focus3.html?surround=etf&ana=e_article
