Theme
10BB Simulation 2
INSTITUTION
Mackay Memorial Hospital - Emergency Department - Taipei - Taiwan
Mackay Medical College - Department of Medicine - New Taipei City - Taiwan
Effective debriefing is essential to the success of simulation-based education. However, the optimal format by which to facilitate debriefing remains elusive.
A free iOS mobile App, CodeTracer, was designed to map team-based interventions during resuscitation simulation into a unique timeline graph for real-time review. We then evaluated whether this particular tool could help in the debriefing process after simulations.
60 participating nurses were randomly assigned into teams of six. Each team completed two scenarios of adult cardiac arrest simulation following a mini-lecture of learning objectives and practice guidelines in resuscitation. A structured debriefing was held immediately after every simulation. 24 and 36 subjects were randomly assigned to "oral debriefing alone (OD)" or "software-assisted debriefing (SD)" groups, respectively. Data and event graph by the mobile App were shown to the SD group, but not OD group, in debriefing sessions.
A total of 20 postsimulation debriefings were recorded. Overall, SD groups made more delta comments than OD group, while the differences of plus comments made between two groups were not significant. In the subdomains of delta comments, the SD groups made richer feedbacks on the technical skills than OD groups, but not significantly different on the knowledge, task management and teamwork.
Software-assisted debriefing had advantage over oral debriefing alone that permit participants to better identify gaps in technical skills in cardiac arrest simulations.
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