| Autor: |
Farhad Aziz, Bryan Yeh, Geremiha Emerson, Christopher San Miguel, Andrew M. King |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 20, Iss 1 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1936-9018 |
| DOI: |
10.5811/westjem.2018.10.39722 |
| Popis: |
Introduction: Emergency physicians are interrupted during patient care with such tasks as reading electrocardiograms (ECGs). This phenomenon is known as task-switching which may be a teachable skill. Our objective was to evaluate the potential of a video game for simulating the cognitive demands required of task-switching. Methods: Emergency medicine residents took a pretest on ECG interpretation and then a posttest while attending to a video game, Asteroids®. Results: The 35 residents (63%) who participated, scored worse on the ECG posttest then they did on the pretest (p |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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