Tag: training
The Ultimate Guide to Point-of-Care Ultrasound-Guided Procedures
This comprehensive book provides an in-depth examination of a broad range of procedures that benefit from ultrasound guidance in the point-of-care setting. It covers common procedures such as ultrasound-guided central... read more
Critical Care Secrets
This easy-to-read book uses the popular and trusted Secrets Series question-and-answer format to cover all areas of critical care medicine, focusing on the practical, "in-the-trenches" know-how you need to succeed both in... read more
Educational Initiatives for EEG in the Critical Care Setting
It is feasible to teach basic electroencephalography (EEG) to participants in critical care settings from different clinical backgrounds, including physicians and nurses. Brief training programs can enable bedside providers... read more
Point of Care Ultrasound
Compact, hand-carried ultrasound devices are revolutionizing how healthcare providers practice medicine in nearly every specialty. The 2nd Edition of this award-winning text features all-new chapters, a greatly expanded... read more
Do team and task performance improve after training situation awareness?
This intervention study shows that a 2-h education in situation awareness improved parts of team performance in an acute care situation. Team leadership and task management improved in the intervention group, which may indicate... read more
Rapid Sequence Induction: Where Did the Consensus Go?
The conduct of Rapid Sequence Induction (RSI) in current emergency practice is far removed from the original descriptions of the procedure. Despite this, the principles – rapid delivery of a definitive airway and avoiding... read more
General Practitioners’ Views in Caring for Patients After Sepsis
General Practitioners provide continuity of care to patients surviving sepsis. Better communication at the ICU-GP interface and training in management of long-term complications of sepsis may be helpful to improve sepsis... read more
Handheld Ultrasound Device Usage and Image Acquisition Ability Among Internal Medicine Trainees
Personal handheld ultrasound devices (HUDs) without direct supervision did not increase the amount of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) usage or improve interns' acquisition abilities. Interns who reported performing more... read more
Adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Thrust into a pandemic unlike any other, health professionals today must continually adapt to an ever-changing environment. Protocols change at dizzying rates, while the physical and mental demands of our jobs increase... read more
America Is Running Out of Nurses
In normal times, there are some 50,000 travelling nurses in the United States. Most are full-time gig workers who move from job to job, usually staying in one place for thirteen weeks. (That length is a holdover from old... read more
Rapid Resilience in the Emergency Department
It is the middle of a busy shift when you get the call that multiple casualties are incoming from a large fire. Your team scrambles to respond as the first victim, a 23 year old with 30% TBSA burns rolls in. He’s screaming... read more
Resilience in a Prehospital Setting – A New Focus for Future Research?
Empirical research is of crucial importance to understand, build and support resilient systems and processes, including exploring and developing interventions to improve capacity for adaptive change in a prehospital setting. Handling... read more
Critical Care Beds Are No Use Without Enough Specialist Staff
In 2020 there have been announcements of the expansion of critical care capacity across the NHS, while at the same time headlines have detailed stories of hospitals running out of critical care beds. And this week dire warnings... read more
Practical Guidance for Evidence-Based ICU Family Conferences
Because most critically ill patients lack decision-making capacity, physicians often ask family members to act as surrogates for the patient in discussions about the goals of care. Therefore, clinician-family communication... read more
Real-time AI prediction for major adverse cardiac events in emergency department patients with chest pain
An artificial intelligence (AI) real-time prediction model is a promising method for assisting physicians in predicting major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in ED patients with chest pain. Further studies to evaluate the impact... read more
Training Multidisciplinary Healthcare Workers to Reinforce ICUs in Times of Need
ESICM is to carry out a C19 SPACE programme funded by the European Commission for the training of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals not regularly working in ICUs, to give extra support to ICUs during the COVID-19... read more
ICU Capacity is More About the Clinicians Than The Number of Beds
Each time communities experience surges of COVID-19, concerns arise over the availability of hospital and intensive care unit beds in affected regions. To monitor ICU capacity, several states have begun to track and publicly... read more
A Guide to Performance Evaluation for the Intensivist
Currently, there is no standard process to develop Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation processes in critical care medicine. Departments and institutions can tailor metrics... read more
Translational simulation for rapid transformation of health services, using the example of the COVID-19 pandemic preparation
Healthcare simulation has significant potential for helping health services to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Rapid changes to care pathways and processes needed for protection of staff and patients may be facilitated by... read more
Preparing ICUs for COVID-19: an Australian Experience
In this article, we describe the response from our intensive care unit (ICU) within a large tertiary private metropolitan Australian hospital. We hope this information may be useful to other ICUs in Australia, for any second... read more
Provider Burnout and Fatigue During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in an overall surge in new cases of depression and anxiety and an exacerbation of existing mental health issues, with a particular emotional and physical... read more
