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Trauma and Hypothermia in Antarctica: An Emergency Medicine Marine Simulation Scenario

Simulation has been shown to improve both learner knowledge and patient outcomes. Many emergency medicine training programs incorporate simulation into their curricula to provide learners with experiences that are rare to encounter in practice, yet performance with a high degree of competence is cri...

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Autores principales: Horwood, Chrystal, Williams, Kerry-Lynn, Skinner, Tate, Brown, Robert, Renouf, Tia, Dubrowski, Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5507760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28706765
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1341
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author Horwood, Chrystal
Williams, Kerry-Lynn
Skinner, Tate
Brown, Robert
Renouf, Tia
Dubrowski, Adam
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description Simulation has been shown to improve both learner knowledge and patient outcomes. Many emergency medicine training programs incorporate simulation into their curricula to provide learners with experiences that are rare to encounter in practice, yet performance with a high degree of competence is critical. One rare encounter, which is depicted in the report, is the management of a trauma patient who was hypothermic after falling from an expedition vessel into the cold Southern Ocean. The unique scenario presented in this technical report incorporates CanMEDS learning objectives including the communicator, health advocate, and collaborator roles. Using medical simulation facilities, marine performance simulation facilities, and a video, this scenario provides teaching that is uncommon in traditional emergency medicine training. As such, it is valuable for trainees who intend to practice rural, remote, or expedition medicine, or provide coverage for ships and marine installations.
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spelling pubmed-55077602017-07-13 Trauma and Hypothermia in Antarctica: An Emergency Medicine Marine Simulation Scenario Horwood, Chrystal Williams, Kerry-Lynn Skinner, Tate Brown, Robert Renouf, Tia Dubrowski, Adam Cureus Emergency Medicine Simulation has been shown to improve both learner knowledge and patient outcomes. Many emergency medicine training programs incorporate simulation into their curricula to provide learners with experiences that are rare to encounter in practice, yet performance with a high degree of competence is critical. One rare encounter, which is depicted in the report, is the management of a trauma patient who was hypothermic after falling from an expedition vessel into the cold Southern Ocean. The unique scenario presented in this technical report incorporates CanMEDS learning objectives including the communicator, health advocate, and collaborator roles. Using medical simulation facilities, marine performance simulation facilities, and a video, this scenario provides teaching that is uncommon in traditional emergency medicine training. As such, it is valuable for trainees who intend to practice rural, remote, or expedition medicine, or provide coverage for ships and marine installations. Cureus 2017-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5507760/ /pubmed/28706765 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1341 Text en Copyright © 2017, Horwood et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Horwood, Chrystal
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title Trauma and Hypothermia in Antarctica: An Emergency Medicine Marine Simulation Scenario
title_full Trauma and Hypothermia in Antarctica: An Emergency Medicine Marine Simulation Scenario
title_fullStr Trauma and Hypothermia in Antarctica: An Emergency Medicine Marine Simulation Scenario
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title_short Trauma and Hypothermia in Antarctica: An Emergency Medicine Marine Simulation Scenario
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topic Emergency Medicine
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