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Improving technical and non-technical skills of emergency medicine residents through a program based on high-fidelity simulation

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We evaluated the effectiveness of a training program with high-fidelity simulation (HFS) to improve technical (TS) and non-technical skills (NTS) of residents in Emergency Medicine. We conducted a 2-year training program for the management of a critical patient based on HFS (6 sessions for every year, four teams who performed 4 scenarios per session). At the beginning of the training program, all participants received a presentation of Crisis Resource Management (CRM) principles. Each session covered a different topic in Emergency Medicine Curriculum. TSs were measured as the proportion of completed tasks in the following areas: airway, breathing, circulation, disability and exposure (ABCDE) assessment and management, completion of anamnesis based on AMPLE (allergy, medications, previous illness, last meal and event) scheme, diagnostic and therapeutic assessment. NTSs were rated by the Clinical Teamwork Scale (CTS). Scores’ values and the percentage of correctly performed actions were presented as median with interquartile range. Friedmann non-parametric test was employed to evaluate the trend of TS and NTS over the following sessions. Among the TS, the assessment and management of ABCDE and completion of therapeutic tasks improved (all p < 0.05). The completion of diagnostic tasks (p = 0.050) tended toward significant improvement. The overall CTS score (first session 61 ± 17, last session 84 ± 16, p < 0.001) as well as Communication (first 13.7 ± 3.6, last 18.7 ± 3.5, p < 0.001), Situational Awareness (first 5.3 ± 1.8, last 6.4 ± 1.4, p = 0.012) and Role Responsibility subscores (first 9.7 ± 2.8, last 12.1 ± 3.7, p < 0.001) increased through the following sessions. Therefore, HFS has proven to be an effective instrument to improve TS and NTS among Emergency Medicine residents.

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    Francesca Innocenti, Irene Tassinari, Maria Luisa Ralli, Andrea Bona, Valerio Teodoro Stefanone, Rita Audisio, Federico Meo, Caterina Grifoni & Riccardo Pini

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FI, IT and VTS gave substantial contributions to the conception and design of the work, drafted and revised the manuscript. ML, AB, CG, RA and FM gave substantial contributions in the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work. RP gave the final approval of the version to be published.

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Innocenti, F., Tassinari, I., Ralli, M.L. et al. Improving technical and non-technical skills of emergency medicine residents through a program based on high-fidelity simulation. Intern Emerg Med 17, 1471–1480 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-022-02940-y

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