Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2021 Dec;165(6):816-818. doi: 10.1177/01945998211000382. Epub 2021 Mar 16.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) in health care environments as a potential mode of transmission. Many organizations and institutions have published AGMP safety guidelines, and several mention the use of simulation in informing their recommendations; however, current methods used to simulate aerosol generation are heterogenous. Creation of a high-fidelity, easily producible aerosol-generating cough simulator would meet a high-priority educational need across all medical specialties. In this communication, we describe the design, construction, and user study of a novel cough simulator, which demonstrates the utility of simulation in raising AGMP safety awareness for providers of all roles, specialties, and training levels.
新冠疫情大流行使人们关注到医疗环境中的气溶胶生成医疗程序（AGMP）可能是一种传播方式。许多组织和机构已经发布了 AGMP 安全指南，其中一些指南提到使用模拟来为其建议提供信息；然而，目前用于模拟气溶胶生成的方法存在差异。创建一个高保真度、易于制作的气溶胶生成咳嗽模拟器将满足所有医学专业的高度优先教育需求。在本通讯中，我们描述了一种新型咳嗽模拟器的设计、构建和用户研究，该模拟器展示了模拟在提高所有角色、专业和培训水平的医疗服务提供者的 AGMP 安全意识方面的效用。
