Leveraging just-in-time simulation to train ad hoc teams.

Background: Simulation prepares clinicians for managing healthcare emergencies in ad hoc teams. However, simulation curricula are often resource, personnel, and time intensive. Applying "just-in-time" (JIT) methodology to simulation training for ad hoc teams may provide similar benefits with fewer resources, although its effectiveness and perceived benefit remain unknown.

Enhancing ad hoc team performance with emotional intelligence.

Ad hoc teams in healthcare systems are beneficial from an organizational lens. Despite the benefits of ad hoc teams, clinical faculty have reported concerns due to a short time to coalesce prior to taking care of complex patients in areas such as the intensive care unit, trauma bay, or operating room. Evidence around ad hoc teams is scarce, so we extrapolated key findings from adjacent literature to establish a foundation for ad hoc team members' individual readiness.

The one cloud on a sunny day: Using emotional intelligence to manage emotions from negative written feedback.

Physician trainees receive anonymous written feedback about their clinical performance, which can be challenging to interpret. Negative written feedback can evoke a strong emotional response. An educational gap exists on how to handle receiving negative written feedback and the accompanying emotions.

Was COVID-19 a heyday for education? Lessons learned from a COVID-19 "pop-up" simulation developed overnight.

Introduction: To adjust for the COVID-19 pandemic's rapidly changing guidelines and clinical needs, educators turned to simulation to create realistic yet safe environments for drilling and innovating various care strategies. Individually, institutions faced creating a pathway for deploying new behaviors and techniques widely across their populace.

Methods: In response to this need, we rapidly developed an interprofessional teaching curriculum for safe intubation techniques and donning/doffing of personal protection equipment to anesthesiology clinicians and technicians.

Perioperative considerations in the management of cold agglutinin disease in laparoscopic surgery.

An 80-year-old man with idiopathic cold agglutinin disease presented with acute cholecystitis. We describe operating room and anaesthetic considerations for patients with cold agglutinin disease and measures that can be taken to prevent disease exacerbation in this case report. Multidisciplinary collaboration and planning between the operative room staff, anaesthesia team and surgical team are needed to ensure safe surgery and optimal patient outcomes.

A morphometric study of mechanotransductively induced dermal neovascularization.

Background: Mechanical stretch has been shown to induce vascular remodeling and increase vessel density, but the pathophysiologic mechanisms and the morphologic changes induced by tensile forces to dermal vessels are poorly understood.

Methods: A custom computer-controlled stretch device was designed and applied to the backs of C57BL/6 mice (n=38). Dermal and vascular remodeling was studied over a 7-day period.