"Good Catch, Kiddo"-Enhancing Patient Safety in the Pediatric Emergency Department Through Simulation.

Objectives: Adverse events that affect patient safety are a significant concern in pediatrics. Increasing situational awareness, identifying errors and near misses, and reporting them using organizational incident reporting systems enables mitigation of harm.

Methods: We designed and tested a brief, interactive, and easily replicable simulation activity for medical students, and emergency medicine interns and pediatric interns to strengthen their skills and enhance their self-efficacy in identifying and reporting patient safety hazards.

Longitudinal exploration of in situ mock code events and the performance of cardiac arrest skills.

Introduction: In hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) affects 200,000 adults in the United States each year, and resuscitative efforts are often suboptimal. The objective of this study was to determine whether a program of "mock codes" improves group-level performance of IHCA skills. Our primary outcome of interest was change in CPR fraction, and the secondary outcomes of interest were time to first dose of epinephrine and time to first defibrillation.