Publications by authors named "E Eromo"
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- OR fires are serious threats to patients and healthcare staff, prompting the need for effective prevention and management training among operating room teams.
- A simulation involving a 52-year-old patient undergoing a biopsy was conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital, with participants unaware of the specific scenario, which included managing fire incidents caused by electrosurgical tools.
- Feedback from 86 participants indicated that the simulation was realistic and relevant, significantly impacting their clinical practices and enhancing teamwork skills.
Background: Internal Medicine (IM) residency graduates should be able to manage hospital emergencies, but the rare and critical nature of such events poses an educational challenge. IM residents' exposure to inpatient acute clinical events is currently unknown.
Objective: We developed an instrument to assess IM residents' exposure to and confidence in managing hospital acute clinical events.
Article Synopsis
- Resuscitating critically ill patients involves identifying diagnoses and implementing Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) protocols, as highlighted in a case of a 56-year-old woman who experiences cardiac arrest during surgery.
- The training involved weekly simulations at Massachusetts General Hospital, where a multidisciplinary team practiced managing scenarios like ventricular fibrillation and unstable ventricular tachycardia using a high-fidelity patient simulator and real medical equipment.
- Results showed that 96% of participants found the training relevant to their practice, with high approval for teamwork and interprofessional learning, emphasizing the importance of preparation for intraoperative cardiac events to improve patient outcomes.
Anesthetic drugs are typically administered to induce altered states of arousal that range from sedation to general anesthesia (GA). Systems neuroscience studies are currently being used to investigate the neural circuit mechanisms of anesthesia-induced altered arousal states. These studies suggest that by disrupting the oscillatory dynamics that are associated with arousal states, anesthesia-induced oscillations are a putative mechanism through which anesthetic drugs produce altered states of arousal.
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