Simulation: Management of critical situations in the Post-Intervention Monitoring Room (SSPI)

About Foch Hospital (Hôpital Foch):

With 2,000 staff members (including 300 doctors) and 600 beds, Foch Hospital is one of the most effective and renowned non-profit university-hospitals with a public service mission in France.

The Foch Hospital indeed provides a wide range of treatments to adult patients in almost all of the medical and surgical domains and commits to education and research, while paying crucial attention to patient care, including through the investment in cutting-edge medical technology.

Foch hospital stands out from the French medical offer by being the leader in the field of neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, gynaecology, urology, anaesthesia, ICU, internal medicine and oncology through innovative treatments.

Training at Foch Hospital is covered by:

• 50% of ward heads at Foch Hospital who also are University professors

• 1 nursing school with 60 students per promotion

• 1 midwifery school with 28 students per class

• 1 continuing education institute, “Foch Santé Formation”

• 1 simulation platform of 600 m2

Since the 1994 decree, the post-intervention monitoring room has been an obligatory passage for patients undergoing surgery. The development of outpatient care or loco-regional anaesthesia is gradually changing the profile of patients in the Post-Intervention Monitoring Room. Furthermore, mini-invasive or robotic surgery and interventional radiology are transforming the traditional postoperative. In these conditions, teams must adapt and must know how to react to new risk situations or situations that have become rarer.

- Nurse

- State-registered nurses, anaesthesia nurse, operating room nurse

- Physician

- Anaesthetist

- Learning and use of the SAED (Situation - Background - Evaluation - Request) technique in communication recommended by the French Authority for Health in 2014.

- The new challenges of Airways Control in unusual situations in the Post-Intervention Monitoring Room.

- Emergency transfusion, work on a high-fidelity simulator on different scenarios.