Simulation training for vascular access interventions. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Training and learning in the field of access for dialysis, including peritoneal and hemodialysis and access for oncologic patients, is well suited for the use of simulators, simulated case learning, and root cause analysis of adverse outcomes and team training. Simulators range over a wide spectrum from simple suture learning devices, inexpensive systems for venous puncture simulation, such as a turkey breast or leg with a pressurized tunneled rubber or graft conduit, to sophisticated computer designed simulators to teach interventional procedures such as vascular access angiogram, balloon angioplasty and stent placing. Team training capitalizes on the principles used in aviation, known as Crew Resource Management (CRM) or Human Factor (HF). The objectives of team training are to improve communication and leadership skills, to use checklists to prevent errors, to promote a change in the attitudes towards vascular access from learning through mistakes in a non-punitive environment, to impacting positively the employee performance and to increase staff retention by making the workplace safer, more efficient and user-friendly.

publication date

  • January 1, 2010

Research

keywords

  • Computer Simulation
  • Computer-Assisted Instruction
  • Education, Medical, Graduate
  • Endovascular Procedures
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic
  • Models, Cardiovascular
  • Renal Dialysis
  • Vascular Surgical Procedures

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 78951471438

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.5301/jva.2010.5826

PubMed ID

  • 21240863

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 11

issue

  • 3