Operative Experience Inc.

Operative Experience (OEI), based in Aberdeen, MD.,  is a leading manufacturer of high-fidelity human patient simulators for the training of healthcare practitioners, first responders, and military personnel, including PCCS and TCCS Pro – a suite of ultra-realistic, fully modular simulators for tactical and trauma care training; RealMom, a hyper-real birthing simulator with lifelike skin and tissue; and C-Celia—a suite of fully-operative simulators for training emergency obstetrics procedures. All OEI simulators are designed and manufactured in the USA.

Headquartered in Aberdeen, Maryland, Operative Experience Inc.’s mission is to revolutionize medical team training. Using these high-fidelity simulation manikins, and with a rigorous experiential instructional paradigm, OEI works to reduce training costs while increasing training effectiveness and retention. The company is dedicated to applying this medical simulation technology throughout the continuum of care, from tactical operations in the field to emergency procedures in the operating room.

Operative Experience Inc. History

Operative Experience Inc. was founded by Robert F. Buckman, Jr., M.D. an internationally- known surgeon and inventor of medical technology. Over the course of a long career as a trauma surgeon, Buckman ran a busy trauma center, has been deployed as a combat trauma surgeon, conducted extensive trauma research and received more than a dozen U.S. patents.

These experiences and his interest in surgical education led him to investigate and discover materials that would react surgically like human tissue. These materials could then be incised, retracted and sutured for healthcare simulation purposes and to establish patient safety.

Following years of prototype development and testing, a collaboration with materials expert Jeffrey Ellis led to the creation of the world’s first physical patient simulators. These medical simulators meant major surgical hands-in-the-body operations could be performed using standard surgical instruments. In the years to come, a series of small Business Innovation Research grants from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command capitalized the company and enabled OEI to advance and expand product development.

In 2016, healthcare simulation pioneer, Lou Oberndorf joined the company and brought with him an executive team with extensive healthcare simulation experience, quickly accelerating product development and growth to transform the company into a leading simulation company with an extensive portfolio of innovative and highly-competitive simulation-based training solutions for healthcare providers, first responders, and the military.

As for tactical simulators, Operative Experience Inc. creates super-realistic, point-of-injury casualty care training for comprehensive Tactical Combat Casualty Care preparation. First, the Tactical Casualty Care Simulator Plus provides both female and male military grade, high-fidelity medical simulators that teach comprehensive, all-four-tier, TCCC and PCC training

Conforming to the Joint Trauma System (JTS), Center of Excellence and Deployment Medicine training standards these medical simulators offer medical provider-level prolonged field care training and comprehensive all-combatant TCCC training. The female version (TCCS and PCCS Pro Female) is the only female trauma care simulator to provide, comprehensive tactical combat casualty care, but with an anatomically accurate female patient and the only female tactical simulator to have been field tested and accredited by the U.S. Army.

Completing Operative Experience Inc.’s tactical suite, the TCCS POI simulator is a full-sized, remotely-activated simulator designed for point-of-injury, tactical medicine training for law enforcement and first responders.