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A Historical Perspective of Simulation in Emergency Medicine

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The history of modern healthcare simulation from a perspective of emergency medicine dates to the early days of when the specialty was formerly recognized. The diverse training required to prepare and maintain competence within the discipline of emergency have traditionally relied on a multi-modal education strategy combining knowledge base learning with attempts to create safe pathways to learning and performing procedural skills.

Early adoption of simulation focused on the competence of individuals in decision making, algorithm compliance as well as critical time sensitive situations such as airway management. Later simulation efforts have broadened to include team training and communications training. Additional roles include the use of simulation to prospectively evaluate latent threats to patient safety as well as influencing the design of emergency medicine facilities and workflow. Higher technology solutions and the broadening of the use of simulation continues to the present time. The community of emergency medicine has made significant contributions to the development of the community of simulation through research, scholarship, education, and leadership.

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  1. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Paul E. Phrampus

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Health System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Paul E. Phrampus

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA

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  2. Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, University of South Florida Health, Tampa, FL, USA

    Yasuharu Okuda

  3. Veterans Health Affairs SimLEARN Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Nelson Wong

  4. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Steven McLaughlin

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Phrampus, P.E. (2021). A Historical Perspective of Simulation in Emergency Medicine. In: Strother, C., Okuda, Y., Wong, N., McLaughlin, S. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Emergency Medicine. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57367-6_1

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