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Review
. 2020 May;38(2):363-382.
doi: 10.1016/j.emc.2020.02.003.

Practice Makes Perfect: Simulation in Emergency Medicine Risk Management

Barbara M Walsh  1 , Ambrose H Wong  2 , Jessica M Ray  2 , Alise Frallicciardi  3 , Thomas Nowicki  4 , Ron Medzon  5 , Suzanne Bentley  6 , Stephanie Stapleton  7
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Practice Makes Perfect: Simulation in Emergency Medicine Risk Management

Barbara M Walsh et al. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2020 May.

Abstract

Simulation has been steadily changing the safety culture in the healthcare industry and allowing individual clinicians and interdisciplinary teams to be proactive in the culture of risk reduction and improved patient safety. Literature has demonstrated improved patient outcomes, improved team based skills, systems testing and mitigation of latent safety threats. Simulation may be incorporated into practice via different modalities. The simulation lab is helpful for individual procedures, in situ simulation (ISS) for system testing and teamwork, community outreach ISS for sharing of best practices and content resource experts. Serious medical gaming is developing into a useful training adjunct for the future.

Keywords: In situ simulation; Medical procedure; Patient safety; Risk mitigation; Simulation; Teams training.

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Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure Dr. Wong is supported by the Robert E. Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust Mentored Research Award and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (grant KL2TR001862). The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The other authors have no disclosures.

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