High Risk/Low Volume In-Situ Simulation for Pediatric Transport Teams

Abstract

Transport teams are responsible for moving critically ill patients between medical facilities via ambulance, rotor-wing, and fixed-wing aircraft. These environments are vastly different from the typical classrooms where Advanced Life Support classes are taught and the hospital units from which transport personal begin their careers. This project aims to bridge the gap by exposing teams to realistic complex scenarios in same space that they actually provide patient care.

Protocol

  • Education Needs Assessment

    Participants will answer questions regarding their general transport experience and experience with high risk/low volume activities. Additionally, demographic data for team members will be collected.

  • Simulation

    The back of a moving ambulance is a completely different milieu than a classroom or an ICU. After completing a pre-sim survey, participants will perform an AHA PALS like scenario using the equipment they have stocked on the ambulance.

  • Debrief & Surveys

    After a debrief discussing the case itself and the challenges of the simulated activity, participants will complete a post-simulation survey rating their confidence performing tasks associated with the simulation and their overall experience.

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This study is ACTIVE.

STU - 2023- 0113

Authorized by: UT Southwestern Medical Center Institutional Review Board

Location: Children’s Medical Center Dallas

Please check back in the coming months for updates and/or results.

COMING SOON

An abstract from this study has been accepted for oral presentation at the 2024 AAP Experience National Conference & Exhibition in the Section on Transport Medicine

Meet the Team


  • Principle Investigator

    Medical Director of Children’s Health Transport Team and Faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dr. Archana is an Attending Physician in the Pediatric and Cardiac ICUs at Children’s Medical Center Dallas


  • Co-Investigator

    As a first-year medical student at UT Southwestern Medical Center,, Jacob came up with the design for this study after having worked as a Transport Nurse for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Recognizing the challenges of transitioning from bedside to pre-hospital Jake worked with other members of the Steering Committee to implement a similar program - hoping to ensure a transport team members first time thinking of cardiac arrest logistics is with a mannequin and not a child.

This study could not be completed without the cooperation of Children’s Health Transport Team and Children’s Medical Center Dallas Simulation Center Staff.

Thank you.