Assessment Tools for Use During Anesthesia-Centric Pediatric Advanced Life Support Training and Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pediatric perioperative cardiac arrests are rare events that require rapid, skilled and coordinated efforts to optimize outcomes. We developed an assessment tool for assessing clinician performance during perioperative critical events termed Anesthesia-centric Pediatric Advanced Life Support (A-PALS). Here, we describe the development and evaluation of the A-PALS scoring instrument.

Methods

A group of raters scored videos of a perioperative team managing simulated events representing a range of scenarios and competency. We assessed agreement with the reference standard grading, as well as interrater and intrarater reliability.

Results

Overall, raters agreed with the reference standard 86.2% of the time. Rater scores concerning scenarios that depicted highly

SUBMITTER: Watkins SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5831729 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature