Context and setting Although health care professionals frequently struggle with communicating technically challenging information to an increasingly video- and computer-savvy audience, video media remain under-utilised. There may be advantages to using simulation environments for videotaping. Several medical centres have developed programmes and facilities for simulation-based education, which faithfully replicate the dynamic nature of critical care medicine. Why the idea was necessary Health care professionals require on-demand education to learn or review a treatment modality prior to providing patient care. Although written and web-based text plays a central role in education, many people are visual learners and are able to assimilate information better by observing images. The technique of concurrent continuous renal replacement therapy and therapeutic plasma exchange (CCRRT + TPE), which has been described in the treatment of fulminant hepatic failure, is not intuitive to most health care professionals. The technique is difficult to describe using words, but may be demonstrated in a straightforward fashion by video. It was postulated that a medical simulation facility could be of value in creating a CCRRT + TPE video.
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