Didactic lectures regarding pediatric MCI triage followed by scored exercises. Ninety-eight providers from throughout the King County, WA, region selected by their own institutions following invitation to participate, with 88 completing exit surveys. Pediatric disaster preparedness conference created de novo and offered by the King County Healthcare Coalition, with didactic sessions and workshops including a scored mock pediatric MCI triage. Educational intervention and cross-sectional survey. This study aims to 1) demonstrate one method of pediatric disaster preparedness education using a regional disaster coalition organized workshop and 2) evaluate factors reflecting the greatest shortfall in pediatric mass casualty incident (MCI) triage skills in a varied population of medical providers in King County, WA. Kenningham, Katherine Koelemay, Kathryn King, Mary A
Pediatric disaster triage education and skills assessment: a coalition approach. Virtual reality provides flexible, consistent, on-demand training options, using a stable, repeatable platform essential for the development of assessment protocols and performance standards. Virtual reality can provide a feasible alternative for training EM personnel in mass disaster triage, comparing favorably to SP drills. There were no significant differences between the triage performances of the VR and SP groups, but the data showed an effect in favor of the SP group performance on the posttest. The mean pretest scores were similar between the SP and VR groups. Analyses included descriptive statistics and measures of association (effect size). Resident performance of triage during the drills and knowledge of the START triage algorithm pre/post drill completion were assessed. Setting and patient presentations were identical between the two modalities. The second group performed likewise in a live disaster drill using SP victims. In the VR group, the learners were effectively surrounded by a virtual mass disaster environment projected on four walls, ceiling, and floor and performed triage by interacting with virtual patients in avatar form. Specifically, are there differences between the triage performances and posttest results of the two groups, and do both methods differentiate between learners of variable experience levels? Fifteen Postgraduate Year 1 (PGY1) to PGY4 EM residents were randomly assigned to two groups: VR or SP. The objective of this study was to compare the relative impact of two simulation-based methods for training emergency medicine (EM) residents in disaster triage using the Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment (START) algorithm, full-immersion virtual reality (VR), and standardized patient (SP) drill. Virtual reality triage training provides a viable solution for disaster-preparedness.Īndreatta, Pamela B Maslowski, Eric Petty, Sean Shim, Woojin Marsh, Michael Hall, Theodore Stern, Susan Frankel, Jen
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