Oluwakemi Tomobi, Howard Nelson-Williams, Adam Laytin, Christaphine Bob-Ray, Ifeoma Ekwere, Michael C Banks, Elizabeth David, Christelle D K Samen, Joseph Edwin Kanu, John B Sampson
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in an increased need for medical professionals with expertise in managing patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, overwhelming the existing critical care workforce in many low-resource countries. OBJECTIVE: To address this need in Sierra Leone, we developed, piloted, and evaluated a synchronous simulation-based tele-education workshop for healthcare providers on the fundamental principles of intensive care unit (ICU) management of the COVID-19 patient in a low-resource setting...
December 2023: ATS scholar