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ArticleViruses2021

Establishing Healthcare Worker Performance and Safety in Providing Critical Care for Patients in a Simulated Ebola Treatment Unit: Non-Randomized Pilot Study.

Peter Kiiza, Sarah I Mullin, Koren Teo, Len Goodman, Adic Perez, Ruxandra Pinto, Kelly Thompson, Dominique Piquette, Trevor Hall, Elhadj I Bah and 10 more

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Article in Viruses, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Peter KiizaDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5040-4589
Sarah I MullinGraduate Department of Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7218-103X
Koren TeoCanadian Forces Health Services Group (CFHS), Toronto, ON M3K 0A1, Canada.
Len GoodmanDefence Research and Development Canada, Toronto Research Centre, Toronto, ON M3K 2C9, Canada.
Adic PerezDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.
Ruxandra PintoDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.
Kelly ThompsonThe George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Newtown, NSW 2042, Australia.
Dominique PiquetteDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.
Trevor HallHealthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada and Interactive Media Lab., University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M2N 6K8, Canada.
Elhadj I BahInfectious Diseases Department, Donka National Hospital, Conakry, Guinea.
Michael ChristianIsland Health Authority, Comox, BC V9M 1P2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9644-9950
Jan J HajekDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada.
Raymond KaoDivision of Critical Care Medicine, Western University, London, ON N6A 5W9, Canada.
François LamontagneDepartment of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, and Centre de recherche du CHU de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
John C MarshallDepartments of Surgery and Critical Care, St. Michael's Hospital, Department of Surgery, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada.
Sharmistha MishraLi Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, St. Michael's Hospital and University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8492-5470
Srinivas MurthyDepartment of Paediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6H 3V4, Canada.
Abel VanderschurenDivision of Intensive Care, Université Laval-CHU de Québec, Québec, QC G1J 1Z4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3486-4259
Robert A FowlerDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.
Neill K J AdhikariDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4038-5382

Funding

CIHR FRN 143482
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Improving the provision of supportive care for patients with Ebola is an important quality improvement initiative. We designed a simulated Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) to assess performance and safety of healthcare workers (HCWs) performing tasks wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) in hot (35 °C, 60% relative humidity) or thermo-neutral (20 °C, 20% relative humidity) conditions. In this pilot phase to determine the feasibility of study procedures, HCWs in PPE were non-randomly allocated to hot or thermo-neutral conditions to perform peripheral intravenous (PIV) and midline catheter (MLC) insertion and endotracheal intubation (ETI) on mannequins. Eighteen HCWs (13 physicians, 4 nurses, 1 nurse practitioner; 2 with prior ETU experience; 10 in hot conditions) spent 69 (10) (mean (SD)) minutes in the simulated ETU. Mean (SD) task completion times were 16 (6) min for PIV insertion; 33 (5) min for MLC insertion; and 16 (8) min for ETI. Satisfactory task completion was numerically higher for physicians vs. nurses. Participants' blood pressure was similar, but heart rate was higher (

Indexed as

Critical CareHealth PersonnelInfectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalAdultCritical IllnessFemaleHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansMaleMiddle AgedNursesPersonal Protective EquipmentPilot Projectscritical carecritical illnessEbola Treatment UnitEbola Virus Diseasepersonal protective equipmentsimulation

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PMID34835011
PMCPMC8622862

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