{"pk":11961,"title":"Asteroids® and Electrocardiograms: Proof of Concept of a Simulation for Task-Switching Training","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Introduction:\n Emergency physicians are interrupted during patient care with such tasks as reading electrocardiograms (ECGs). This phenomenon is known as task-switching which may be a teachable skill. Our objective was to evaluate the potential of a video game for simulating the cognitive demands required of task-switching.\nMethods:\n Emergency medicine residents took a pretest on ECG interpretation and then a posttest while attending to a video game, Asteroids®.\nResults: \nThe 35 residents (63%) who participated, scored worse on the ECG posttest then they did on the pretest (p<.001; effect size=1.14). There were no differences between genders or training level.\nConclusion:\n Interpreting ECGs while playing the Asteroids® game significantly lowered ECG interpretation scores. This shows the potential of this activity for training residents in task-switching ability. The next phase of research will test whether ECG reading performance while task-switching improves with practice.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Education, Graduate Medical"},{"word":"Emergency Medicine"},{"word":"Multitasking Behavior"}],"section":"Brief Educational Advances","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xv7v06n","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Farhad","middle_name":"","last_name":"Aziz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, Ohio","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Bryan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yeh","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, Ohio","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Geremiha","middle_name":"","last_name":"Emerson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, Ohio","department":"None"},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"P.","last_name":"Way","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, Ohio","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Christopher","middle_name":"","last_name":"San Miguel","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, Ohio","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Andrew","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"King","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, Ohio","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2018-07-12T19:17:33Z","date_accepted":"2018-07-12T19:17:33Z","date_published":"2018-11-16T19:18:33Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/11961/galley/6397/download/"}]}