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To determine whether a simulation-based mastery learning curriculum improves resident procedural skills and decreases central venous catheter insertion complications in an intensive care unit.

September 18, 2009Critical Care Medicine

Simulation-based mastery learning reduces complications during central venous catheter insertion in a medical intensive care unit*

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To determine whether a simulation-based mastery learning curriculum improves resident procedural skills and decreases central venous catheter insertion complications in an intensive care unit.
Observational cohort study of an educational intervention conducted in a medical intensive care unit at an urban tertiary-care teaching hospital.
Included 103 internal medicine and emergency medicine residents, comparing 27 traditionally trained residents with 76 residents who underwent simulation-based mastery training.
Intervention required residents to attain expert-level minimum passing scores on simulated internal jugular and subclavian insertions using checklist metrics alongside pre- and post-training written exams.
Simulator-trained residents reported fewer needle passes (p < .0005), fewer accidental arterial punctures (p < .0005), fewer catheter adjustments (p = .002), and higher overall insertion success rates (p = .005) during actual patient procedures.
Simulator procedural pass rates rose from 16% (mean score 50.6% ± 23.4%) to 100% (mean score 93.9% ± 10.2%) for internal jugular lines, and from 14% (mean score 48.4% ± 26.8%) to 100% (mean score 91.5% ± 17.1%) for subclavian lines (both p < .0005).
Written knowledge examination scores improved significantly from a pretest mean of 70.3% (SD = 7.7%) to a posttest mean of 84.8% (SD = 4.8%, p < .0005).

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Observational cohort study shows simulation mastery learning reduces central venous catheter insertion complications in residents, indicating deliberate practice improves patient safety.

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Barsuk et al. (2009) studied this question.

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Observational cohort study shows simulation mastery learning reduces central venous catheter insertion complications in residents, indicating deliberate practice improves patient safety.

Simulation-based mastery learning reduces complications during central venous catheter insertion in a medical intensive care unit*

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Simulation-based mastery learning reduces complications during central venous catheter insertion in a medical intensive care unit*

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