Rapid deployment of a virtual simulation curriculum to prepare for critical care triage during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada, an Emergency Standard of Care for Major Surge was created to establish a uniform process for the "triage" of finite critical care resources. This proposed departure from usual clinical care highlighted the need for an educational tool to prepare physicians for making and communicating difficult triage decisions. We created a just-in-time, virtual, simulation-based curriculum and evaluated its impact for our group of academic Emergency Physicians.

Methods

Our curriculum was developed and evaluated following Stufflebeam's Context-Input-Process-Product model. Our virtual simulation sessions, delivered online using Microsoft Teams, addressed a range of clinical scenarios involving decisions about critical care prioritiz

SUBMITTER: Mastoras G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8956452 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature