Paramedic performance in calculating drug dosages following stressful scenarios in a human patient simulator

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 439-444

  LeBlanc, Vicki R ^a,b   MacDonald, Russell D ^a,b   McArthur, Brad ^a   King, Kevin ^a   Lepine, Tom ^a  

^a Ont Air Ambulance Base Hosp Prog   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotional response; Paramedics; Skills; Stress; Training

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICATION ERROR; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 31544436906     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120500255255     Document Type: Article

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