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How do we turn surgical residents into safe intensive care unit clinicians?

from BJS Society

How do we turn surgical residents into safe intensive care unit clinicians? BJS Society The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has resulted in unprecedented public health, social and economic impact1. The sudden influx of critically ill patients has strained hospital capacities across the world and the shortfall in the number of critical care beds available has required institutions to actively expand intensive care unit (ICU) services. The concomitant postponement of regular hospital operations including non‐critical elective surgeries has led to the rapid mobilization of surgical residents to staff COVID‐19 ICUs without appropriate opportunity for time‐based training or knowledge‐based examination to ensure competencies. READ MORE

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