Pediatric Airway Assessment Tool (PAAT): A Rating Tool to Assess Resident Proficiency in Simulated Pediatric Airway Skills Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has identified the need for assessment of core skills for pediatric and emergency medicine residents, which includes pediatric airway management. Although there are standard courses for pediatric airway management, there is no validated tool to assess basic and advanced pediatric airway skills performance. Our objective was to develop a simulation-based tool for the formative assessment of resident pediatric airway skills performance that was concise, yet comprehensive, and to evaluate the evidence supporting the argument for the tool's validity.

Methods

We developed a pediatric airway assessment tool (PAAT) to assess six major domains of pediatric airway skills performance: basic airway maneuvers, airway

SUBMITTER: Wing R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7586756 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature