CHEST 2023 On Demand Pass-Nurturing Growth: Fostering Success in Trainees

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Good afternoon, everyone. Today, I will be presenting a novel simulation-based educational training program aimed at improving internal medicine resident management of post-cardiac surgery patients after cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest following adult cardiac surgery has a high survival rate due to the high incidence of reversible causes. However, internal medicine residents are often not trained in managing these patients. The goal of this project was to evaluate and improve resident knowledge, comfort, and skill in managing these patients. The project involved developing a simulation case based on the Society of Thoracic Surgery protocol and integrating it into resident ACLS simulation sessions. Pre and post-simulation surveys and knowledge assessments were also conducted. The results showed that prior to training, 88% of residents had never been trained in post-cardiac surgery patient resuscitation and only 29% identified a difference in resuscitating this population. After training, all residents were able to recognize the difference and 67% felt comfortable resuscitating these patients. There was also a statistically significant improvement in knowledge scores following the simulation training. The study demonstrated the effectiveness of the simulation-based training in providing residents with the necessary skills and knowledge to manage post-cardiac surgery patients after cardiac arrest. Further work could involve extending the training to intern-level residents and exploring the impact on patient outcomes.

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Category Educator Development

Session ID 4045

Speaker Mahmoud Alwakeel

Speaker Samuel Garcia

Speaker Jane Pangburn

Speaker Deepak Pradhan

Speaker Ajay Siva

Speaker Elizabeth Zipf

Track Education

Keywords

simulation-based training

educational program

internal medicine residents

post-cardiac surgery patients

cardiac arrest

resuscitation

knowledge assessment