A Child with a Wheeze
(Asthma)
After this activity, the team will be able to:
1. Apply Crisis Resource Management and teamwork in a pediatric resuscitation (with attention to role designation, directed orders, sharing mental model and closed loop communication with team and family members).
2. Prioritize treatment of potential etiologies to guide stabilization or escalation of care for a pediatric patient with status asthmaticus.
3. Determine the appropriate patient disposition/ transfer.
2. Video
The video includes frame of an animated patient next to a monitor with vital signs that change based on the patient's clinical condition. There is also a prerecorded, narrated prebrief, dispatch, and debrief that you can use to help faciliatate the simulation.
Use the video's clickable hotspots to navigate to different parts of the video and find content faster. You can also download the video and use if offline, starting and stopping it as indicated.
SimBox: A Child with Wheeze Interactive Video Simulation
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Download the non-interactive video from YouTube to use offline
Based on the participants' actions, hover over the video progress bar and quickly navigate to different parts of the video. You can also pause and restart the video as indicated.
3. Surveys
Please complete the facilitator and participant surveys at the end of the session to help us improve SimBox.
Acknowledgements
Posted: April 2023
Authors: Snimar Kaur, Kei Wong, Maybelle Kou, Marc Auerbach, Elizabeth Sanseau, Sofia Athanasopoulou
Disclaimer: The booklet and video were created as educational and research resources and not to guide clinical practice. Please reach out to our team with any questions or if you want to contribute.
Animation used with permission from OPENPediatrics.