COVID-19: Helping You Prepare

On-Demand Webinar

Protection of Personnel Working on Suspected COVID-19 Cases

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has created a healthcare crisis that has put a major training burden on hospitals, emergency medical services, and long-term care facilities, among others.

To assist you in preparing your staff and teams, Laerdal hosted a free webinar, offering a complimentary pre-programmed scenario. The scenario can be run on a Laerdal simulator or independently on a standardized patient. During the webinar, one of Laerdal’s lead Education Specialists will demonstrate and share the scenario to afford you easy execution. The scenario is designed to help you test and improve your systems for infection control, PPE, and management of exposure to COVID-19 or any other high risk communicable respiratory illness*.

Webinar recording | Helping Your Organization to Prepare for Coronavirus/COVID-19 (English)

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Learning Objectives are:

Review the peer-reviewed COVID-19 simulated case scenario documentation published by EM Sim Cases
Show theme created from documentation, suggested use, and potential to edit
Show scenario created from documentation, suggested use, and potential to edit
Provide instruction on downloading the complimentary pre-programmed scenario file

Suspected Uncomplicated Novel COVID-19 Infection (ARI)

This scenario presents a 55-years-old male presenting in the emergency room with fever, coughing and generally feeling unwell. He returned from travel in an endemic area for COVID-19 1 week ago. The front desk has prioritized him to immediate examination and isolation.

The participants are expected to prepare equipment, don PPE, assess patients and triage to home quarantine, educate patients, communicate effectively with interprofessional team, escalate standard precautions for all patients and safely dispose of equipment and PPE.

Learning objectives:

Recognize the suspected patients early and rapidly
Apply appropriate source control
Apply routine Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) for all patients
Collaborate and communicate with the health care facility’s IPC infrastructure
Apply standard precautions according to presumed diagnosis at all times
Perform a primary assessment of a patient with a suspected acute respiratory infection
Distinguish between severe acute respiratory infection and acute respiratory infection
Obtain specimen for laboratory test according to safety procedures
Triage the patient according to the general principles for patients with suspected COVID-19 infection
Obtain patient history on personal and work relations
Advise patient on home quarantine
Coordinate safe patient transfer
Doff PPE according to procedure

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Complimentary scenarios for COVID-19 preparedness

Laerdal Medical and partners have created a set of free scenarios to help healthcare providers prepare for the Coronavirus COVID-19 disease.

How to Download and Install Complimentary Scenarios

How to Download Complimentary Scenarios for SimPad

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How to Download Complimentary Scenarios for LLEAP

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COVID-19 Solutions

Airway Management Solutions for COVID-19

We know that effective airway management can be critical to the treatment of severe COVID-19 cases, and we’re here to help.

Respiratory Care Training for COVID-19

Prepare your team to develop clinical knowledge to manage severe cases of a patient suffering from COVID-19 using the ASL 5000 Lung Solution and 3 free scenarios we developed in collaboration with IngMar Medical.

E-Learning Solutions for COVID-19

From e-learning and scenarios for training in donning and doffing PPE, to refreshing skills for those returning to clinical practice, we have something to help.

Resuscitation Solutions for COVID-19

Within both hospitals and EMS, the rapid spread of COVID-19 is limiting resuscitation training resources and requiring first response teams to change protocols.

References

*This scenario was developed by: © 2019 EMSIMCASES.COM and the Emergency Medicine Simulation Education Researchers of Canada (EM-SERC) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.