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Simulation in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

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Anaesthesia, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E.

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Simulation can be considered as an attempt to reproduce real or imaginary environments and systems to study the behaviours of the subjects and the consequences of their actions in real time. Anaesthesia seems to be an ideal field where simulation can offer advantages without risks. New concepts in medical education consider more structured and planned curricula and the need to gain and to maintain competence in all aspects of clinical practice. Some institutions as US FDA, American College of Surgeons (ACS), American Board of Anaesthesiologists (ABA) have already required a simulation-based training for some of their qualifications. Some errors are inevitable, but living errors in a simulation setting can allow participants to improve their emotional control and to have a better management of the situation if it happens again with live patients. A simulation project is an expensive project and a good manager must plan a financial draft to let a simulation centre to survive. The cost-effectiveness of a simulation-based medical educational programme must be considered in terms of improvement of clinical competence, patient safety and error reduction in the era of limited resources.

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    Paolo Persona & Carlo Ori

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    Antonino Gullo

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Persona, P., Ori, C. (2014). Simulation in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5516-2_4

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