Megan Tazioli
Pronouns: she/her
Research Mentor(s): Vitaliy Popov
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Research Mentor School/College/Department: Department of Learning Health Sciences / Medicine
Presentation Date: April 20
Presentation Type: Poster
Session: Session 3 – 1:40pm – 2:30 pm
Room: League Ballroom
Authors: Megan Tazioli, Popov Vitaliy
Presenter: 117
Abstract
This research project focuses on Analyzing what contributes to efficient recognition, correct diagnosis, and proper treatment of malignant hypothermia by anesthesiologist trainees in an OR simulation setting. Malignant Hyperthermia is a severe and rare allergic reaction to anesthetics that is very difficult to predict and diagnose. This project seeks to study and enhance communication in a team-based simulation of anesthesiologist trainees, as well as other members of the operating team, who are helping to diagnose and treat this condition in order to enhance patient care and minimize negative outcomes. Through conducting and analyzing this type of research findings I am able to hypothesize that Malignant Hyperthermia is best treated in simulations where trainees and support team members are able to hypothesize about what is going on, explicitly assess the situation through various tests, and then implement some sort of treatment plan. I also hypothesize that success rates will be highest when the team has clear communication, quick diagnosis, and efficient treatment. From my analysis so far, it seems important that the surgery team prioritizes the treatment of the Malignant Hyperthermia before attempting to move forward with the rest of the surgery. These research results were obtained by analyzing approximately 24 video simulations using the coding interface ELAN. These videos were able to be successfully analyzed by segmenting the video data and assigning pre-established labels to these segmentations in order to categorize which methods were the most successful in treating Malignant hyperthermia in this type of setting and which methods should be avoided. My research team is then going to use these findings to complete a research paper with the hopes of making this type of simulation-based training a requirement for trainees, so they are more thoroughly trained to handle these types of situations, and thus death rates of malignant hyperthermia will decrease in the future.
Biomedical Sciences
