Comprehensive assessment of a nationwide simulation-based course for artificial life support.
Mateusz PusleckiMarek DabrowskiMarcin LigowskiBishoy ZakharyAhmed S SaidKollengode RamanathanElaine CooleyLukasz PusleckiSebastian StefaniakPiotr ZiemakIlona Kiel-PusleckaAgata DabrowskaTomasz KlosiewiczMaciej SipRadoslaw ZalewskiMalgorzata LadzinskaWojciech MrowczynskiPiotr LadzinskiLidia SzlangaKonrad BaumgartPiotr KupidlowskiLukasz SzarpakMarek JemielityBartlomiej PerekPublished in: PloS one (2021)
Our course confirmed that simulation as an educational approach is invaluable not only in training and testing of novel or commonly used procedures, skills upgrading, but also in practicing very rare cases. The implementation of the education program during COVID-19 pandemic may be helpful in founding specialized Advanced Life Support centers and teams including mobile ones. The dedicated R&D Innovation Ecosystem established in the "ECMO for Greater Poland" program, with developed National Education Center can play a crucial role in the knowledge and know-how transfer but future research is needed.