Rapid, multimodal, critical care knowledge-sharing platform for COVID-19 pandemics

Authors

  • Amra Sakusic epartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA; Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care, Emergency and Perioperative Medicine (METRIC), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5810-5292
  • Dragana Markotic University Clinical Hospital Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6765-766X
  • Yue Dong Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care, Emergency and Perioperative Medicine (METRIC), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1737-6536
  • Emir Festic Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2002-4248
  • Vladimir Krajinovic Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2537-707X
  • Zoran Todorovic Department of Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology, and Toxicology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; University Medical Center “Bezanijska kosa”, Belgrade, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8869-9976
  • Alan Sustic Department of Anesthesiology, Reanimatology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8393-4332
  • Natasa Milivojevic Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6982-4628
  • Milka Jandric Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Clinical Centre of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Srdjan Gavrilovic Institute for Pulmonary Diseases of Vojvodina, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7752-3833
  • Alexander Niven Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care, Emergency and Perioperative Medicine (METRIC), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0891-9495
  • Pedja Kovacevic Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Clinical Centre of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6654-5351
  • Ognjen Gajic Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care, Emergency and Perioperative Medicine (METRIC), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17305/bjbms.2020.4934

Keywords:

COVID 19, intensive care unit, critical illness, education, knowledge sharing, global health

Abstract

In many areas of the world, critical care providers caring for COVID-19 patients lacked specific knowledge and were exposed to the abundance of new and unfiltered information. With support from the World Health Organization, we created a multimodal tele-education intervention to rapidly share critical care knowledge related to COVID-19 targeting providers in a region of Southeastern Europe. We delivered 60-minute weekly interactive tele-education sessions over YouTubeTM between March 2020 and May 2020, supplemented by a dedicated webpage. The intervention was reinforced using a secure social media platform (ViberTM), providing continuous rapid knowledge exchange among faculty and learners. A high level of engagement was observed, with over 2000 clinicians participating and actively interacting over a 6-week period. Surveyed participants were highly satisfied with the intervention. Tele-education interventions using social media platforms are feasible, low-cost, and effective methods to share knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rapid, multimodal, critical care knowledge-sharing platform for COVID-19 pandemics

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01-02-2021

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Rapid, multimodal, critical care knowledge-sharing platform for COVID-19 pandemics. Biomol Biomed [Internet]. 2021 Feb. 1 [cited 2024 Mar. 29];21(1):93-7. Available from: https://bjbms.org/ojs/index.php/bjbms/article/view/4934