Essential pre-course preparation
IMT3 essential pre-course preparation
Preparation for immersive simulation
This video on non-technical skills has been produced by two of the faculty, to allow trainees attending the IMT1 boot camp to get the best possible learning from the immersive simulation scenarios. You might also find it interesting to view this prior to the registrar ready course, to refresh your memory of non-technical skills.
Preparation for immersive simulation video
Content:
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Situation awareness
- Decision making and prioritisation
(7 minutes)
Scrubbing and gowning up
Please take the time to revise your skills in this area, view this as many times as required to refresh your memory and feel completely competent to perform this key step. All of the other procedures on the course will be performed with the expectation of full asepsis, as covered at boot camp.
Scrubbing and gowning up video
Content:
- Scrubbing and gowning up procedure
(3.5 minutes)
Clicking on the video will take you to The Mastery Skills Pathway website, the video is half way down the page.
Shadowboxing Resources
The following three videos have been prepared as essential pre-course preparation for the shadowboxing sessions at the IM3 registrar ready course. Please review them and bring any questions you have to the relevant sessions.
Shock and Cardiovascular Support video
Content
- Identification of shock
- Shock classifications
- Assessment of fluid responsiveness and fluid tolerance
- Use of vasopressors
- Use of inotropes
(Approximately 45 minutes)
Tracheostomy pre reading
Outline:
- What is a trache?
- When and why are they used?
- Variables - technique, equipment, patients
- Problems that can occur
- Prevention of emergency & disaster
- Actions in emergency & disaster
(Approximately 20 minutes)
Discussing Treatment Escalation Plans
Outline:
The REDMAP framework:
R - Ready
E - Expect
D - Diagnosis
M - Matters
A - Actions
P - Plan
(Approximately 15 minutes)
Vascular access resources
There is the opportunity to be signed off as ‘ready for directly supervised workplace practice’ in ultrasound guided central venous catheterisation. You must refresh this skill, even if you already feel confident in this procedure, to ensure that a common standard is attained in IM3.
It is usually very quickly obvious to faculty if you have not engaged with this pre-course learning. In this situation, it is unlikely you will achieve the required standard to be signed off in this procedure.
Central venous catheter (CVC) insertion reading pack
Content:
- Mastery skills pathway overview
- Learning outcomes
- Indications and risk assessment
- Patient safety considertaions
- Potential complications
- Basic sciences
- Equipment and resources
- Procedure
- Appendices
(Approximately 1 hour)
Clicking on the document will take you to The Mastery Skills Pathway website, the document is at the bottom of the page.
Central venous catheter video
Content:
- Preparation, assistance and positioning
- A three point procedural pause
- Asepsis and local anaesthetic infiltration
- Insertion
- Securing and dressing
- Completion
(19 minutes)
Clicking on the video will take you to The Mastery Skills Pathway website, the video is at the top of the page.
Basic ultrasound and vascular access video
Content:
- Understanding the basic physics
- Different artefacts and when to expect them
- Basic use of the machine - “knobology”
- Vascular access demonstration
(15 minutes)
