Hypothermia in a Rural Setting: An Emergency Medicine Simulation Scenario
Patients presenting with hypothermia in a rural emergency department can be quite challenging to manage without significant mortality and morbidity. Standard medical school curricula do not fully prepare trainees for the unique aspects of practice in northern rural and remote communities. Training o...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5837320 2023-05-15T15:04:31+02:00 Hypothermia in a Rural Setting: An Emergency Medicine Simulation Scenario Zhou, Felix Jong, Robert Heroux, Aron Dubrowski, Adam 2017-12-28 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5837320/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29511605 https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1998 en eng Cureus http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5837320/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29511605 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1998 Copyright © 2017, Zhou et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Emergency Medicine Text 2017 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1998 2018-03-11T01:20:08Z Patients presenting with hypothermia in a rural emergency department can be quite challenging to manage without significant mortality and morbidity. Standard medical school curricula do not fully prepare trainees for the unique aspects of practice in northern rural and remote communities. Training opportunities on site may provide a solution to this lack of experience. However, these communities often have limited simulation-based resources and expertise for conducting and developing simulation scenarios. In this technical report, we outline a hypothermia simulation that utilizes only basic resources and is, thus, practical for rural and remote facilities. The aim of this report is to better equip trainees, clinicians, and emergency department staff who may encounter such a scenario in their practice. While the simulation is specifically designed for medical students, resident doctors, and emergency department staff, it could also be applicable in other low-resource settings, such as military bases, search and rescue stations, and arctic travel and tourism infirmaries. Text Arctic PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Cureus |
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Patients presenting with hypothermia in a rural emergency department can be quite challenging to manage without significant mortality and morbidity. Standard medical school curricula do not fully prepare trainees for the unique aspects of practice in northern rural and remote communities. Training opportunities on site may provide a solution to this lack of experience. However, these communities often have limited simulation-based resources and expertise for conducting and developing simulation scenarios. In this technical report, we outline a hypothermia simulation that utilizes only basic resources and is, thus, practical for rural and remote facilities. The aim of this report is to better equip trainees, clinicians, and emergency department staff who may encounter such a scenario in their practice. While the simulation is specifically designed for medical students, resident doctors, and emergency department staff, it could also be applicable in other low-resource settings, such as military bases, search and rescue stations, and arctic travel and tourism infirmaries. |
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