A Pediatric Trauma Boot Camp Pilot Program
Nyemade Cooper, Ingrid Anderson, *Michael Dingeldein, *Richard Speicher, Jerri Rose, Tiffany Frazee, *Ann Bacevice
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH
Background: Trauma resuscitation is a complex, high stress, high consequence, multi-disciplinary event. We wanted to understand our learners' baseline experience caring for pediatric trauma patients to tailor future learning opportunities to their needs.
Methods: To improve pediatric resuscitation, we piloted a multidisciplinary trauma boot camp consisting of didactics and hands-on procedure stations run by faculty: needle decompression and placement of IO/IVs, chest tubes and tourniquets and high-fidelity simulated traumas.
Results: A total of 48 learners participated in one of two half day trauma boot camps: 8 nurses/NPs, 39 physicians and 1 paramedic. Participants came from 4 departments: general surgery (9), pediatric anesthesia (4), pediatric critical care (6) and pediatric emergency medicine (24). The physician group was 48.8% faculty and 51.2% trainees. At baseline, 14 participants had never led a pediatric trauma, nine led 1-5, two between 6-10, three between 11-15 and twenty led more than 15. Pre bootcamp, only 45.8% of learners agreed or strongly agreed that they felt comfortable leading a pediatric trauma. Post bootcamp that number increased to 77.8%. All participants agreed or strongly agreed that boot camp was a valuable educational experience.
Conclusion: This baseline data will help us design future trauma boot camps. Recognizing that confidence does not equal competence, we need to design a way to follow and assess this cohort going forward as they care for pediatric trauma patients. 
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