TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wang, Zihan
AU  - Gu, Ruting
AU  - Wang, Jingyuan
AU  - Gai, Yubiao
AU  - Lin, Hui
AU  - Zhang, Yan
AU  - Li, Qianqian
AU  - Sun, Tong
AU  - Wei, Lili
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/7
TI  - Effectiveness of a Game-Based Mobile App for Educating Intensive Critical Care Specialist Nurses in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Pipeline Preflushing: Quasi-Experimental Trial
JO  - JMIR Serious Games
SP  - e43181
VL  - 11
KW  - extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
KW  - mobile app
KW  - simulation training
KW  - specialist nurses
KW  - learning curve
KW  - ECMO
KW  - intensive care
AB  - Background: In the context of training specialist nurses and nursing education, a game-based mobile app was used as a simulation to teach intensive critical care specialist nurses the knowledge and skills of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) pipeline preflushing. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a game-based mobile app on improving ECMO pipeline preflushing skills in intensive critical care specialist nurses. Methods: A total of 86 intensive critical care specialist nurses who were learning ECMO for the first time were included in this study. The nurses were divided into 2 groups: a control group (n=43) and an experimental group (n=43). Participants in the experimental group used a game-based mobile app for simulation exercises; the control group received no additional intervention. All participants took a theoretical test and a skill operation test at the beginning of the study and 1 week later. The differences in scores between the 2 groups were compared, and the learning curve of the experimental group was observed. Results: The final theoretical test scores (88.44 and 85.02) and skill operation test scores (89.42 and 86.33) of the experimental group and control group, respectively, were significantly higher than those of the initial tests (theoretical test scores: 75.88 and 74.42; skill operation test scores: 75.44 and 75.93; all P<.001). The scores of the final theoretical test (88.44) and the final skill operation test (89.42) in the experimental group were higher than the scores of the control group (85.02; P<.001 and 86.33; P<.001, respectively). Learning curve analysis showed that the experimental group needed an average of 17 operations to master the skill. Conclusions: This study suggests that a game-based mobile app may be more effective for intensive critical care specialist nurses in ECMO pipeline preflushing education than traditional Chinese lecture-practice education. 
SN  - 2291-9279
UR  - https://games.jmir.org/2023/1/e43181
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/43181
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38062643
DO  - 10.2196/43181
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/43181
ER  -