2025 National Acute Critical Event Simulation

Why Should I Attend?

N-ACES welcomes critical care trainees from the 13 adult critical care programs in Canada as an introductory preparatory largely simulation-based experience. This annual course is an excellent opportunity for residents to network and meet their colleagues from across the country. A shared start to their training will help foster lifelong friendships and collaborations. The goal of N-ACES is to rapidly upgrade the trainees’ knowledge and skills in the early management of critically ill patients. The course will maintain its small group learning approach using multiple modes of instruction, including a high proportion of experiential learning through a variety of simulation modalities (e.g. facilitated case scenarios, phone simulation, etc.) and interactive group sessions with expert critical care faculty.

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About the Course

Expert faculty will provide you with first-class support to help you build skills in bedside ultrasound to help recognize and intervene on various states of critical illness.

An introduction to hemodynamic assessment with echo

Are you looking to learn more about how to assess the hemodynamic function of the heart? Or maybe just looking to dust off some old skills? In this course we will provide a gateway for you to better understand how experts approach function and pathology in various states of illness. In this custom-designed course, we use an instructional design model that will bring you from a flipped classroom online environment to bedside mentorship with clinician educators that pride themselves in teaching learners of every stage. We will provide support in reviewing challenging images and guide your interpretation every step of the way. Clinical cases are selected from actual cases seen by faculty.

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Why Should I Attend?

This course will teach you how to introduce the concepts of crisis resource management skills and provide effective feedback to participants who are practicing the approach strategies and the practical skills required in the management of a medical emergency.

Custom designed for physicians and nurses/nurse practitioners in Canada and abroad who teach other physicians, residents or other professionals how to manage a medical crisis using theatre-based simulation.

Upon successful completion of the Royal College’s ACES-IC, participants will be able to perform the following tasks:

• List and describe the principles of effective crisis management, including leadership, communication, situational awareness, problem-solving and resource utilization.
  
• List and describe the general debrief cognitive theory principles
  
• Describe and apply the principles of setting up the debriefing sessions
  
• Describe and apply the principles of effective CRM feedback
  
• Run a CRM simulation
  

Course Format

Day 1: Workshop

Day 2-3: Practical application with N-ACES course

The first day of the instructor course is a one-day workshop with a low participant-instructor ratio that introduces CRM principles, debriefing cognitive theory as well as how to provide effective feedback in standard and difficult debriefing scenarios.

During the next two days, participants will apply the facilitation and debriefing skills learned on Day 1. As a newly trained instructor in CRM simulation, you will get the chance to run cases as well as debrief incoming first year Critical Care fellows. Instructor course participants will be paired with senior instructors for mentoring and debriefing through the 2-day National ACES course.