Free COVID-19 expansion pack
Emergency Departments (ED) are the medical frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are rapidly changing their floor layout, writing new pathways and managing staff while maintaining the highest possible levels of infection control and patient care.
Managing an ED during a pandemic is new to everyone and circumstances are changing rapidly. To help ED teams test and refine their COVID-19 pathways we have developed a COVID-19 expansion pack for the game.
The expansion pack offers 9 new COVID-specific starting scenarios and 50 COVID-patient profiles based on real patient cases (not all COVID positive). Extra Spin and Lifeline cards help you to simulate a range of realistic situations that best suit the current situation in your ED.
The expansion pack was created by Dr Salwa Malik an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.
All you need to run a COVID-19 simulation is up to 12 people* for 90 minutes; any senior member of staff can facilitate the game without external support. These sessions also offer an opportunity for staff to ‘decompress’ and address their own wellbeing during the debrief.
We are offering the COVID-19 expansion pack free-of-charge to anyone who already owns a copy of the game and for anyone buying a copy of The Floor – Emergency Department Simulation. The expansion pack consists of:
- 9 Starter cards
- 50 Patient cards
- 18 Spin cards
- 18 Lifeline cards
*If you don't want 12 people in the same room some or all of them can participate remotely via an online video call.