If you are a doctor, nurse, healthcare professional, simulation technician or a student and are looking for advice, information and updates in the medical field and are wondering about the impact the pandemic has had on education and training in emergency medicine and medical simulation, this article is for you! The Covid-19 pandemic [...]
If you ever asked yourself which institution does finance a project aimed at renewing the existing training offer to make practitioners ready to operate in real emergency conditions and why, you will be interested in reading this article. Let us start by saying that SAFETY is a project financed in the framework of [...]
Training is useful in acquiring and maintaining skills. While this statement is very well founded in current scientific literature, it seems rather unknown to healthcare administrative bodies. This makes developing training programmes, be it for emergencies or any other healthcare field, a two-front battle. The needs of the learners, the technical and educational [...]
Two different emergency cases... The 43 years old man is about to be intubated for a routine operation. The experienced anesthesiologist does not expect this sudden difficult airway that the patient presents with now. “Difficult airway”, the doctor says loudly, clearly, and quickly - you can hear his stress and the anesthesia nurse [...]
Airway management is a fundamental skill in operating theatres, emergency and intensive care units. One of the most serious problems that we can find is the “Can't Intubate-Can't Oxygenate” situation. Although this is a rare condition, this is still a cause of high morbidity and mortality.1 Emergency cricothyrotomy, an invasive technique that allows [...]
In line with the Sustainable Development Goals for 20301, clinical simulation ensures inclusive and equitable quality education. As most top healthcare professionals are integrative clinical thinkers, analytical problem-solvers and reflective learners, aspects such as perception, reasoning, interpretation, judgment, and decision-making are essential competencies enhanced by simulation. As a learning resource, simulation tools provide [...]
Advanced medical simulation is now a widely used method in all training phases of health professionals as regards the learning of technical and procedural skills and for the acquisition of non-technical skills likeorganization, communication and in general to improve teamwork and leadership skills.1,2,3 How can we be sure that the individual skills acquired [...]
Today the Project Coordinator UNIFG (University of Foggia) will present the SAFETY project at the "Kick-Off meeting for the Knowledge Alliances 2020 projects" organized by the EACEA Agency (European Commission - Erasmus+). The meeting, held online, will involve more than 80 people and 32 recently financed Erasmus+ KA projects. It will be a [...]
On 25 and 26 November 2020 was held the kick-off Meeting of SAFETY - Simulation Approach For Education and Training in emergencY, a project funded by the European Programme Erasmus + Knowledge Alliance 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, coordinated by the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of [...]