Two simulation cases to prepare for a public festival: pediatric MDMA ingestion and alcohol toxicity[1]
Summary
Description of two simulation cases — pediatric methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) ingestion and alcohol toxicity — developed to prepare emergency department staff at a pediatric hospital sited near a large music festival for an anticipated surge of intoxicated patients. Eight simulations were run over two years with 57 participants across a range of healthcare roles; an 85% post-session survey response rate showed the sessions were well received and left participants feeling better prepared.
So what
Educational rather than evidential, and useful precisely for that: it is a worked example of a pediatric department preparing for a specific adjacent event, which is what McAndrew's eleven-fold citywide signal implies every such department should be doing. Directly reusable in MGMI's toxicology and pediatric curriculum modules.
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