Founded in 2008 by physician Dr. Paul Lecat and Fran Lecat, Lecat’s Ventriloscope® makes simulation and recording stethoscopes that bring authentic abnormal patient sounds into clinical training. Dr. Lecat developed the patented technology after finding that instructors lacked a realistic way to teach auscultation, and the company now supports examinations ranging from standardized patients to pediatric and blood-pressure assessment. Its sound libraries are drawn from live patient recordings, and the Ventriloscope is presented as the only research-backed simulation stethoscope.
iSimulateFounded from a shared insight between an anaesthetist and an intensive-care paramedic, iSimulate develops mobile clinical-education technology for realistic healthcare simulation. Launched in 2011 with an iPad-based ALS training system, the company now builds portable systems that can reproduce patient monitors, defibrillators and fetal heart-rate monitoring for training outside traditional simulation centres. iSimulate became part of the 3B Scientific Group in 2020 and continues to operate from Canberra, Australia, and Albany, New York.ALBANY, NY
Nasco Healthcare IncNasco Healthcare traces its roots to 1941, when agricultural teacher Norman Eckley began making educational tools on his farm. Now based in Saugerties, New York, the company has spent more than 80 years developing medical simulation equipment for frontline healthcare and rescue professionals, with its heritage including the Simulaids and Life/form brands. Its ISO 9001:2015-certified quality system reflects a manufacturing operation that controls products from design through delivery.SAUGERTIES, NY
IngMar MedicalFrom its Pittsburgh base, IngMar Medical has spent more than a quarter century building respiratory simulators and test lungs that let clinicians train on real ventilators while engineers and researchers evaluate respiratory devices. Its signature ASL 5000 breathing simulator can model patients from neonatal through adult, while the newer Aurora manikin brings that high-fidelity lung technology into hands-on ventilation training. Since 2024, IngMar Medical has been part of 3B Scientific and serves more than a thousand customer sites worldwide.PITTSBURGH, PA
Your Design MedicalFounded and run by a board-certified emergency physician with training in mechanical engineering and science education, Your Design Medical hand-builds medical simulation equipment in New York. The US-based company creates affordable, customized training tools—from suture pads and vascular trainers to ultrasound phantoms—for hands-on practice across medicine. Its owner makes the core products by hand rather than outsourcing mass production and has produced nearly 100,000 items over roughly 10 years.SEA CLIFF, NY