Practicing CPR with simulation
Kenichiro Yagi, MS, RVT, VTS (ECC) (SAIM), discusses the unique opportunity for veterinary professionals to learn this emergency rescue technique with a hands-on element.
The North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) is hosting a RECOVER workshop May 28-29, 2025, during the NAVC SkillShop event in Orlando, Florida. The workshop aims to have attendees earn CPR certification and CPR instructor certification. In a dvm360 interview, Kenichiro Yagi, MS, RVT, VTS (ECC) (SAIM), chief nursing officer for Veterinary Emergency Group and program director for the RECOVER Initiative, discusses the workshop and the opportunity it provides for veterinary professionals to learn CPR with simulator technology.
The following is a transcript of the video:
Kenichiro Yagi, MS, RVT, VTS (ECC) (SAIM):The whole premise of the RECOVER workshop, the rescuer workshop [is], to begin with, that [the] workshop has a structure of people learning through a nice, interactive online course the concepts of RECOVER guidelines and how to perform CPR based on an evidence-based guideline. And they come in and actually practice performing CPR with a simulation-based learning, high fidelity simulators that actually makes them be able to believe that they're actually working on a real animal. And that kind of practice is something that is very difficult to get in on the hospital floor, that they have a patient that's dying in front of [them]. That's not the time to practice. You want to be practicing before you get to that point, which is why simulation exists.
