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Edition 37 Spring 2020
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The world as it was!
Balmy days – please enjoy the reports
on some of our workshops this early spring. Seems such a long time ago now.
Now, engines are ticking over and CIME is fully serviced ready to spring into
action at the resumption of normal business. But we haven’t been sitting idly
by. Next month we will provide pictorial evidence and narrative surrounding
some of the amazing work we have helped facilitate during this painful time,
and lets not stop there. Anyone with ideas for workshops or skills sessions,
in CIME, to better equip our clinical colleagues, please be in touch: my door
is always open.
Professor Charles Docherty
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CIME responds to challenges posed by pandemic
The global outbreak of COVID-19 has led
to the need of for many more trained professionals to help care for the
rising number of infected patients. To assist, CIME partnered with the
University Hospital's internal medicine and infection control teams to
prepare frontline staff to deal with coronavirus affected patients through
simulation-based education and practice.
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Read more
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Community health nursing simulation in CIMEABAD!
Sharpening the cutting edge of community based simulation in
Pakistan
Can you guess where this place is?
Thinking of somewhere outside Karachi? Wrong! This is not located on the
outskirts of the city, rather situated right in the heart of the city, in the
country’s most technologically advanced simulation centre. Surprised? That’s
how the post-RN BScN students felt when they explored this area during
briefing for the first of, hopefully many, rural community-based simulation
at CIMEABAD in CIME courtyard.
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Read more
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Strengthening midwifery education
High
maternal mortality rates have always been a major concern in Pakistan.
Midwives play a crucial role in providing effective maternal and child health
care during pregnancy, childbirth, and in the important days and weeks after
birth. As part of our continuous engagement in improving maternal, newborn
and child health through simulation-based education, CIME is committed to
working with the School of Nursing and Midwifery (SONAM) and Nursing
Education Services (NES) to support the teaching and learning of midwifery
workforce. Read more…
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Promoting safe injection practices
A
huge number of people around the world get injectable drugs every year for
various reasons. The spread of infectious diseases through unsafe injection
practices has been a global concern.
LIFT
(Focused Learning of Injection Technique) – an effort, in partnership with
Sanofi Pakistan, to provide residents and emergency medical practitioners a
platform where they learn about safe injection practices and procedures
leading to the reduction of diseases caused by unsafe practices and medical errors.
Read more…
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Emergency skills workshop for students
32 medical and nursing students
participated in this one-day Emergency Skills Workshop arranged by SPIE.
Students experienced 4 simulation scenarios; road traffic accident trauma,
wounds, urinary tract infection (UTI) hyperthermia and cardiogenic shock. The
emphasis of the workshop was on practical skills in order to provide the
students with the confidence to apply these skills in appropriate settings.
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Blood rush: a race against time
He could barely hear anything over the
ringing sound echoing in his ears. A tight knot had formed in his throat, his
hands felt weird as if they were numb but he knew there was no time to waste.
With trembling hands, he cleared blood that was flowing out of the patient's
wound. With the pressuring mounting with every passing second, he could feel
himself perspiring as a drop of sweat formed and raced down his forehead, at
the verge of dripping, his mind was focused on a singular thought “stay
calm". However, it was a process easier said than done, as the blood
drenched the white gauze colouring it a bright shade of crimson.
He noticed in his peripheral vision as
the patient's vitals were rapidly dropping, driving him to a more anxious
state. He reminded himself that there was no time to panic, that this young
girl's life depended on him. He had to work fast for the whimpering girl in
front of him was a victim of a road traffic accident that left her left leg
severed below the knee. He repeated his mantra under his breath “Stay calm,
stay focused!"
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Training of trainers
Updates in clinical & interventional pulmonary
CIME
collaborated with the Sanofi Pakistan to arrange a training of trainers
programme for 20 pulmonologists and internal medicine specialists from all
over Pakistan. The Programme subjected towards updates in the management of
community-acquired pneumonia, ventilator-acquired pneumonia,
hospital-acquired pneumonia, diseases mimicking pneumonia. Read more…
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Preparing nurses for high flow nasal cannula therapy
High
flow nasal cannula (HFNC) is a safe, well-tolerated, and non-invasive method
of respiratory support that has seen increasing use in the care of children
with respiratory distress. A one-day simulation-based course was offered in
collaboration with the Department of Emergency to improve the skills of
registered nurses in the use of HFNC and its management. Read more…
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Upper GI bleeding workshop
In partnership with Helix Pharma
Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is
a very common and life threatening medical emergency and needs skilled
triage, assessment and treatment. 20 general physicians from across Pakistan
participated in this workshop by applying their clinical skills and knowledge
in simulated scenarios where patients with upper GI bleed arrive in emergency
room. Learners took patient history, performed physical examination,
investigated and managed all aspects of GI bleed.
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Swallowing assessment training for nurses
Nutrition is the fundamental human
physiological need to survive. Patients in the Intensive Care Unit are one of
the most vulnerable patients in hospital setting who are in great need of
good nutritional support to combat critical diseases. Patients who stay long
in ICU settings have swallowing problems after extubation and sometimes they
do not tolerate swallowing assessment. The service line 10 in collaboration
with CIME arranged a simulation-based session for the critical care nurses
and technicians to equip them with the required skills and knowledge in
swallowing assessment procedures.
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Strengthening education & empowering diabetes management
A
two-day workshop on the management of hypoglycaemia was organised in
association with the Sanofi Pakistan. Hypoglycaemia is a true medical
emergency which requires prompt recognition and treatment to prevent organ
and brain damage. This equipped 50 general practitioners with ample
knowledge, skills to identify and manage hypoglycaemia events in the primary
care set-ups. Learners were taught cardiovascular examination on the
cardiology patient simulator, diabetic foot examination on simulated patient,
hypoglycaemia management on SimMan and diabetic retinopathy fundoscopy on eye
examination task trainers.
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Monitoring of intrapartum CTG - A simulation workshop
In
current clinical practice the assessment of fetal wellbeing during labor and
delivery is commonly performed through fetal surveillance known as
Cardiotocography (CTG), which measures continuously the fetal heart rate
(FHR) in relation to the maternal uterine contractions.
A
total of 20 obstetricians and midwives from the hospital participated. After
an introductory lecture on the interpretation of CTG, the faculty
demonstrated the functions of CTG, followed by a hands-on practice. The
learners also performed in a simulated case “interruption of CTG” on
Victoria.
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Highlights from the 5th Annual Surgical Meeting
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Workshop on resuscitative thoracotomy
Resuscitative
thoracotomy is a special procedure performed only under certain
circumstances. Simulation modality for training is the only best way to keep
the trainees well prepared with up-to-date knowledge and skills to perform
such high-stake and low-frequently occurring procedures. The CIME team with
CTS team developed a task trainer in-house for this purpose.
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Tube
thoracostomy skill
Tube
thoracostomy is one of the most commonly performed procedure which saves
patients’ lives. This workshop was aimed to train the physicians in this
life-saving skill and to create awareness and familiarize them to this
bedside procedure in terms of indications, anatomical land marks and
equipment used for tube thoracostomy.
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Surgical
airway management workshop
It
was aimed at identifying airway emergency in setting of trauma in both
clinical and non-clinical areas, its evaluation and management. Through the
use of simulation, participants were instructed on airway anatomy, identification
of developing airway emergencies, and effective implementation of appropriate
airway interventions.
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Mastering
the art of advanced trauma care
Injury
kills more people every year than HIV, TB and malaria combined. This advanced
trauma course focused on the critical decision making during initial
management in ER. Moulage on simulated patients delivered a high fidelity
simulation through 6 stations; Limb amputation, Abdominal gunshot injury,
Burn, Head injury, Spinal cord injury and Pneumothorax.
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Surgical
Olympics by students
More
than 80 young students from the medical and nursing field participated in the
Surgical Olympics, which included fun filled learning stations. Students were
taught skills such as catheterization, suturing, assessment, etc., as well as
learning time pressure and skill efficiency along with all other protocols
for controlling infections and managing patients.
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SSH Accreditation Celebration Highlight
This is how we celebrated becoming
South Asia’s first simulation-based educational institution to be accredited
by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) – the leading healthcare
simulation accreditation body in the world. Congratulations! And a BIG Thank
You to everyone for all your support! Watch video…
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Mailing
Address:
Centre
for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME), Aga Khan University, Stadium Road
P.O. Box 3500, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
Tel:
+92 21 3486 3733 | Email: cime@aku.edu |
Website: www.aku.edu/cime
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