The effectiveness of and satisfaction with high-fidelity simulation to teach cardiac surgical resuscitation skills to nurses

This section needs a heading, I suggest that the title background is move from below to here. The incidence of cardiac arrest after heart surgery is approximately 1.6 –5.2% (Guney et al., 2009; Lapar et al., 2014) with a 0.5% incidence of emergency re-sternotomy (Adam et al., 2009). Survival to hospital discharge is 37–50% (Maccaroni et al., 2013; Ortmann et al., 2011). Learning the skills involved in cardiac surgical (CS) resuscitation is an important for nu rses working in CS units.

Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - February 18, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Marion E. McRae, Alice Chan, Renee Hulett, Ai Jin Lee, Bernice Coleman Tags: Original article Source Type: research