Publications by authors named "Liat Pessach-Gelblum"
Acute response to the October 7th hostage release: rapid development and evaluation of the novel ReSPOND protocol implementation within a children's hospital.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health
June 2024
Background: The decision to allocate hospitals for the initial reception of hostages abducted on the October 7th Hamas attack introduced an array of unprecedented challenges. These challenges stemmed from a paucity of existing literature and protocols, lack of information regarding captivity conditions, and variability in hostage characteristics and circumstances.
Objective: To describe the rapid development, implementation and evaluation of the Hostage-ReSPOND protocol, a comprehensive trauma-informed procedure for the care of hostages, including young children, their caregivers and families, immediately following their release from prolonged captivity.
Medical clowns (MCs) are trained professionals who aim to change the hospital environment through humor. Previous studies focused on their positive impact and began identifying their various skills in specific situations. When placed in pediatrics, MCs face various challenges, including approaching frustrated adolescents who are unwilling to cooperate with their care, dealing with their anxious parents, and communicating in a team in the presence of other health professionals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCompetency Based Medical Education (CBME) is an educational approach that occupies a central place in medical education. Medical education is accountable for the graduates' professional level, ensuring they are skilled and competent in all key areas of their profession. Adopting CBME underscores the importance of simulation-based training.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: Exposure to negative social interactions (such as rudeness) has robust adverse implications on medical team performance. However, little is known regarding the effects of positive social interactions. We hypothesized that expressions of gratitude, a prototype of positive social interaction, would enhance medical teams' effectiveness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Rudeness is routinely experienced by medical teams. We sought to explore the impact of rudeness on medical teams' performance and test interventions that might mitigate its negative consequences.
Methods: Thirty-nine NICU teams participated in a training workshop including simulations of acute care of term and preterm newborns.
Article Synopsis
- Clinicians in acute care need to quickly assess a patient's illness severity, but there often isn't a standard measure to validate their judgments; this text discusses using judgment analysis as a framework for better understanding these decisions.
- A study involving 16 participants in a neonatal intensive care unit had them rate the severity of simulated cases on a 5-point scale, revealing both consistency in interpreting clinical signs and notable differences among clinicians.
- The findings suggest that judgment analysis can improve clinical assessments by identifying factors affecting judgment, enhancing education, and providing feedback to healthcare professionals.
Introduction: Patient bedside is the ideal setting for teaching physical examination, medical interviewing, and interpersonal skills. Herein we describe a novel model for bedside teaching (BST) practiced during tutor training workshop and its resulting effect on practitioners' self assessment of teaching skills and perceptions.
Methods: One-day tutor training workshop included theoretical knowledge supplementation regarding tutors' roles as well as implementing practical tools for clinical education, mainly BST model.