Abstract
While participation in both recreational and commercial fisheries is common, it is not risk-free. Puncture wounds caused by fishhooks are commonly incurred by people who fish recreationally and commercially. Despite literature that details the challenges of treating fishhook injuries and specific techniques for fishhook removal, only a single publication focuses on teaching fishhook removal techniques to medical trainees and staff physicians.The aim of this technical report is to investigate the efficacy of using a 3D-printed task trainer for simulating and teaching fishhook removal techniques. To facilitate this, the 3D-printed Fishhook Emergency Removal Simulator (FISH-ER 3D) was designed by the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) MED 3D Network and satellite research partner, Carbonear Institute for Rural Reach and Innovation by the Sea (CIRRIS).A sample of 22 medical residents and staff physicians were asked to evaluate the task trainer by way of a practical session, which was then followed by an evaluation survey. The overall realism of the 3D-printed task trainer components was ranked as “realistic” or “very realistic” by 86% of the evaluators. The majority of evaluators rated acquiring and performing various fishhook removal techniques using the simulator as “easy” or “somewhat easy”. Most evaluators found that using the task trainer increased user competence and confidence with fishhook removal techniques, and 100% of the evaluators rated the task trainer as a “very valuable” or “valuable” training tool.The results of this report demonstrate support for the FISH-ER 3D as an efficacious simulator for building competence in fishhook removal techniques.
Highlights
Fisheries are important recreational and commercial activities enjoyed by many people in Canada and around the world
There is only a single publication focused on teaching fishhook removal techniques to medical residents and staff physicians using a task trainer [7]
We developed the 3D-printed Fishhook Emergency Removal Simulator (FISH-ER 3D) to be used in Simulation-based medical education (SBME) for teaching proper fishhook removal techniques
Summary
Fisheries are important recreational and commercial activities enjoyed by many people in Canada and around the world. Estimates conducted in 2010 by Fisheries and Oceans Canada projected that 3.61 million anglers spent a combined total of 43.3 million days fishing recreationally across the country While participation in both recreational and commercial fisheries is common, it is not risk-free. While special barbless hooks exist for conservation purposes, the most common style of fishhook is barbed and is designed to be difficult to remove Injuries involving these can become complicated if proper techniques are not used when attempting to remove an embedded fishhook [2,3,4,5,6]. There is only a single publication focused on teaching fishhook removal techniques to medical residents and staff physicians using a task trainer [7] This represents a scarcity of resources which clinicians can use to achieve competency in fishhook removal techniques prior to treating real patients. A niche exists for the development of a fishhook removal training simulation
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