Emergency Medicine Cardiorespiratory Mastery Skills Day
IMPORTANT: This is the first time in Scotland that we are using ‘Simulation Based Mastery Learning’ techniques for Emergency Medicine Trainees.
This is the same educational concept used on the very successful national IMT Bootcamps for Internal Medicine Trainees that started several years ago in Lothian.
We want this high-quality training in high-risk procedural skills for every EM Trainee in Scotland, building on your skillsets each year linked to the RCEM Curriculum (e.g. T&O skills, chest drains, thoracotomy, resuscitative hysterotomy, etc).
This course has ONE Mastery Learning Station for you – so ONLY one set of Essential Pre-learning:
Station C: Open Chest Drain
Blunt dissection and wide bore chest drain Educational Reading Pack
Content:
• Mastery skills pathway overview
• Learning outcomes
• Indications and risk assessment
• Patient safety considerations
• Potential complications
• Basic sciences
• Equipment and resources
• Procedure
• Appendices
NOTE to be signed off for this skill you will be expected to perform the task as per checklist inside the reading pack
Should you wish an opportunity to also practice and be signed off for ‘Seldinger’ Guidewire Intercostal Chest Drain it is essential that you also study the ICD (guidewire) exemplar video and Intercostal Chest Drain Guidewire Technique reading pack and checklist - both of which can be found on this page
https://www.med.scot.nhs.uk/simulation/the-mastery-programme/guidewire-intercostal-drain
We have collated other excellent resources here for your pre-learning preparation and recommend that you should watch the videos and read the information online to get the most from your day.
PLEASE NOTE however that it is NOT essential that you read/watch this content in advance of the course, we appreciate you are clinically very busy so please use these resources as you wish.
It is anticipated that participants may have completed some of the RCEMlearning sections already and have confidence in Advanced Life Support skills also and for some this information will be revision.