TY - JOUR
T1 - International Virtual Simulation Education in Critical Care During COVID-19 Pandemic
T2 - Preliminary Description of the Virtual Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness and iNjury Program
AU - Flurin, Laure
AU - Tekin, Aysun
AU - Bogojevic, Marija
AU - Zec, Simon
AU - Sun, Yuqiang
AU - Li, Heyi
AU - Finch, Alexander
AU - Ahmad, Sumera
AU - Kashyap, Rahul
AU - Gajic, Ognjen
AU - Niven, Alexander S.
AU - Dong, Yue
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - SUMMARY STATEMENT: The Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness and iNjury program is a well-established, interactive, and simulation-based program designed to improve the quality of care delivered in intensive care units. The COVID-19 pandemic created an overwhelming surge of critically ill patients worldwide, and infection control concerns limited healthcare providers' access to in-person and hands-on simulation training when they needed it the most. Virtual simulation offers an alternative to in-person training but is often complex and expensive. We describe our successful development and initial implementation of an inexpensive, simulation-based virtual Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness and iNjury program to address the pressing need for effective critical care training in various resource-limited settings both within and outside of the United States. The overall satisfaction rate ("excellent" or "very good" responses) was 94.4% after the virtual simulation workshop. Our initial experience suggests that virtual interactions can be engaging and build strong relationships, like in-person continuing professional education, even using relatively simple technology. This knowledge-to-practice improvement platform can be readily adapted to other disciplines beyond critical care medicine.
AB - SUMMARY STATEMENT: The Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness and iNjury program is a well-established, interactive, and simulation-based program designed to improve the quality of care delivered in intensive care units. The COVID-19 pandemic created an overwhelming surge of critically ill patients worldwide, and infection control concerns limited healthcare providers' access to in-person and hands-on simulation training when they needed it the most. Virtual simulation offers an alternative to in-person training but is often complex and expensive. We describe our successful development and initial implementation of an inexpensive, simulation-based virtual Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness and iNjury program to address the pressing need for effective critical care training in various resource-limited settings both within and outside of the United States. The overall satisfaction rate ("excellent" or "very good" responses) was 94.4% after the virtual simulation workshop. Our initial experience suggests that virtual interactions can be engaging and build strong relationships, like in-person continuing professional education, even using relatively simple technology. This knowledge-to-practice improvement platform can be readily adapted to other disciplines beyond critical care medicine.
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U2 - 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000656
DO - 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000656
M3 - Article
C2 - 35439791
AN - SCOPUS:85132340881
SN - 1559-2332
VL - 17
SP - 205
EP - 207
JO - Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare
JF - Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare
IS - 3
ER -