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Simulation for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Transport

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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Pediatrics

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The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) environment is complex, and its smooth operation relies on highly trained healthcare providers. Simulation-based education, with its ability to educate healthcare teams in rare but high-stakes scenarios, has a critical role to play in the PICU. This includes specialized task training (such as resuscitation, intubation, and central line placement), team training, and coordination of multiple healthcare providers in very complex tasks such as cannulation for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatric Critical Care, University of Alberta, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Jonathan P. Duff MD, MEd

  2. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Department of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Matthew S. Braga MD

  3. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Melinda Fiedor Hamilton MD, MSc

  4. Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Children’s of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Nancy M. Tofil MD, MEd

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    Vincent J. Grant

  2. KidSIM-ASPIRE Simulation Research Prgm, Alberta Children's Hospital, CALGARY, Alberta, Canada

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Duff, J., Braga, M., Hamilton, M., Tofil, N. (2016). Simulation for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Transport. In: Grant, V., Cheng, A. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Pediatrics. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24187-6_19

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