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Table 1 Brief description of the OSCE stations

From: Students benefit from developing their own emergency medicine OSCE stations: a comparative study using the matched-pair method

Station

Setting,task

Basic life support

• An unconscious person (mannequin) has been discovered at a building site

• Basic resuscitation

Advanced life support

• You are a member of a resuscitation team and are required to assist resuscitation (mannequin)

• Pulse analysis, electrotherapy and drug treatment of cardiac arrest

Insertion of a peripheral venous catheter in a polytrauma patient

• Providing intravenous access in an unconscious polytrauma patient (mannequin arm)

• Correct insertion using the right size peripheral venous catheter, selection of suitable infusion solutions

Chest pain

• 51-year-old patient with retrosternal pain at A&E

• Establishing medical history, ECG evaluation, administration of drugs

Bag valve mask ventilation

• You are a member of a resuscitation team and responsible for securing the airway during resuscitation

• Demonstrating the correct performance of bag valve mask ventilation (airway mannequin)

Polytrauma: helmet removal and neck immobilization

• Motionless motorcyclist (mannequin) with helmet still on and visor closed after colliding with a tree

• Demonstration of the correct removal of the helmet and neck immobilization using Stifneck®

Newborn resuscitation

• Treatment of a baby born by emergency Caesarean (mannequin) in hospital

• Evaluation and stimulation (if necessary resuscitation) of the baby

Focused assessment with sonography for trauma

• Polytrauma management in the casualty room (A&E, sonography training system)

• Performance of emergency sonography showing Morison’s pouch, Koller’s pouch, epigastric region and heart, urinary bladder

Preparing and carrying out blood transfusion

• Postoperative tachycardia and anaemia in a coronary disease patient in the recovery room

• Preparing and carrying out transfusion, demonstration of ABO compatibility test

ECG

• Patient chest pain on the left (mannequin)

 

• Recording an ECG, arrangement of further diagnosis

  1. The 10 stations described in the table were used in the summative OSCE. These stations were developed by the responsible teaching stuff of the faculty. However, some similarities exist compared to the stations developed by the students (see also Table 2).