Simulcast

Ever felt that preparing equipment for advanced airway management in your ED is ‘messy’?  In this episode Vic interviews Dr Ava Butler, an emergency doctor and QI/ simulation practitioner from rural British Columbia. We discussed her recent article about how equipment re-design and translational simulation was used to dramatically improve preparation speed and staff level of comfort with advanced airway management.  The conversation was informative and inspiring. We talked about the liberating structures process of brainstorming ideas for improvement, the role of patient partners in improvement, the hierarchy of interventions in quality improvement, and the significance of qualitative measures and stories in improvement efforts.  We marvelled at the dramatic improvements they achieved using a color-coded airway cart and translational simulation; a 76% reduction in time taken to prepare airway equipment, and significant improvements in staff comfort and team culture. EM sim cases got an honourable mention