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When should we perform a repeat training on adrenaline auto-injector use for physician trainees?
E. Topal
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, A. Bakirtas, O. Yilmaz, I.H.E. Karagol, M. Arga, M.S. Demirsoy, I. Turktas
Department of Pediatric Allergy and Asthma, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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Exclusion criteria were&#59; previous working experience in an allergy department&#44; previous training on the use of adrenaline auto-injector and&#47;or having an adrenaline auto-injector for self or for a family member currently or previously&#46; We used trainers &#40;EpiPen trainer<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#174;</span>&#44; Meridian Medical Technologies&#44; Inc&#46; Columbia&#44; USA&#41; which were exactly identical to the original adrenaline auto-injectors except for the medication and the needle&#46; We provided a three-step written and visual instruction sheet on adrenaline auto-injector use&#46; The instruction sheet was translated from the original trainer package insert&#46; We used a system originally devised by Sicherer et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> to score the use of adrenaline auto-injector &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46; In this scoring system a maximum score of six points was possible &#40;one point for each step&#41;&#46; 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mean time to administer auto-injector and presumptive self-injection into thumb &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a>&#41;&#46; Holding auto-injector in place for 10<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>s in the group assessed after 6 months was different compared to baseline &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;04&#41; and all other assessment steps were similar in both groups compared to baseline &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#62;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;05 for all&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">When the groups were compared in terms of study parameters&#44; the group which was assessed after 6 months was worse than the group assessed after 3 months in all study parameters &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a>&#41;&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0055">Discussion</span><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Our study demonstrated that the skills for the proper use of adrenaline auto-injector were stable within the first 3 months but decreased afterwards&#44; at the sixth month&#46; Earlier studies demonstrated that the adrenaline auto-injector usage skills increased by training for both physicians and patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6&#8211;8</span></a> Kapoor et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> evaluated the proper usage skills of the patients who were prescribed an adrenaline auto-injector for food allergies within three critical steps &#40;removal of the grey safety cap&#44; selecting the appropriate site and pressing the EpiPen down until it &#8220;clicks&#8221;&#41; and initiated the training&#46; They determined that the patients&#8217; skills of the adrenaline auto-injector use increased from 52&#46;2&#37; to 95&#46;7&#37; 3 months after the training&#46; However&#44; they did not evaluate the proper usage skills right after training&#46; Even so&#44; the percentage of patients able to demonstrate adrenaline auto-injector use after 3 months was satisfactory&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Sicherer et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> evaluated the auto-injector usage skills of the patients&#8217; who had food allergy&#44; at three successive stages&#58; Before the training&#44; right after the training and 1 year after the training&#46; After a year&#44; total score for the auto-injector usage skills had increased compared to pre-training but decreased compared to post-training&#46; They reported that this decline was statistically significant for the two steps &#40;recognising the device and holding it for 10<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>s&#41;&#46; Our study revealed a similar result that the failure made in holding the auto-injector for 10<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>s step was just statistically significant in the group assessed after 6 months compared to baseline&#46; In fact&#44; 10<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>s holding step was repeatedly reported as the most common failure step in other studies&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5&#44;7&#44;9&#44;10</span></a> However&#44; recently Baker et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> demonstrated that 1<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>s holding time is sufficient in an experimental study and stated that there is no scientific basis for the proposal for holding it for 10<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>s as is stated in the prospectus of the auto-injector&#46; In this case&#44; less than 10<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>s holding time may not be recognised as a failure&#46;</p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Playing with wrong tip of auto injector trainer after removing safety cap was statistically greater for the group which was tested in the sixth month than the one which was tested in the third month&#46; The failure in this step can be prevented by removing the safety cap after placing the black lead on the leg as proposed by Baker et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> or by using new adrenalin auto-injectors if available in the country&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a></p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The evaluation in Sicherer&#39;s study is a year later than the initial training&#59; it does not give an idea about the point when the decrease in the skills for auto-injector usage starts&#46; Our results showed that the acquired skills decrease 6 months after the initial training&#46; However&#44; we performed the study with interns and not with patients&#44; which may give indirect information about this issue&#46; Also&#44; although more realistic&#44; data loss is common in follow up studies with patients as in the study by Sicherer et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> in which only 55&#37; of the patients could be re-evaluated after a year&#46; In contrast&#44; our study was completed by 91&#46;8&#37; of participants&#46;</p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; auto-injector usage skills of physician trainees decrease after the sixth month and are better in those who had skill reinforcement at 3 months&#44; suggesting that continued education and skill reinforcement may be useful&#46; However&#44; these results do not allow us to conclude that this is the time frame needed for patients&#47;caregivers&#44; too&#46; Therefore&#44; future studies are needed to determine the time frame on retraining of patients for adrenaline auto-injector usage skills&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0060">Ethical disclosures</span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0065">Patients&#8217; data protection</span><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that they have followed the protocols of their work centre on the publication of patient data and that all the patients included in the study have received sufficient information and have given their informed consent in writing to participate in that study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0070">Right to privacy and informed consent</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors have obtained the informed consent of the patients and&#47;or subjects mentioned in the article&#46; The author for correspondence is in possession of this document&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0075">Protection of human subjects and animals in research</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this investigation&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0080">Conflict of interest</span><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">No competing financial interests exist and there is no conflicts of interest statement for each author&#46;</p></span></span>"
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es en pt

¿Es usted profesional sanitario apto para prescribir o dispensar medicamentos?

Are you a health professional able to prescribe or dispense drugs?

Você é um profissional de saúde habilitado a prescrever ou dispensar medicamentos