Publications by authors named "K Hemanthkumar"
A major concern during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the shortage of manpower for patient care. The recommendation of various authorised bodies encouraged the training of students from medical, nursing, and allied fields to manage COVID-19 cases by tele-consultation and monitoring of mild cases under the supervision of faculty. Anticipating a further shortage of human resources, leading to dire consequences, preparedness training for the final year and pre-final nursing undergraduates was initiated.
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- The study evaluates the effectiveness of a hybrid video-based teaching module aimed at improving nursing professionals' knowledge of oxygen therapy and critical care for COVID-19 patients.
- Conducted as a retrospective analysis with pretest and posttest scores from a workshop involving 296 nurses, the results showed significant improvement in posttest scores across all groups.
- The findings suggest that combining video with in-person demonstrations enhances learning and could be more beneficial than traditional teaching methods, especially during urgent situations like pandemics.
Background: Modern human patient simulators (HPSs) could be used for researching critical scenarios such as apnea oxygenation. We aimed to study the use of a high-fidelity HPS to assess prolonged apnea using various oxygenation strategies with a simple high-flow nasal cannula (15 L/min).
Methods: An experimental simulation study using an HPS (CAE Healthcare™) was conducted after obtaining approval from the Institutional Review Board.