OBJECTIVE: It is difficult for emergency residents to attend all the lectures that are required because of the limited labor time. The Google Hangouts program for has been used as a remote videoconference to overcome the limit to provide equal opportunities and reduce the time and costs since 2015. This article reports the authors' experiences of running a residency education program using Google Hangouts. METHODS: From 2015, topics on the emergency radiology were lectured to emergency residents in three different hospitals connected by Google Hangouts. From 2017, electrocardiography analysis, emergency radiology, ventilator application, and journal review were selected for the remote videoconference. The residents' self-assessment score, and a posteducation satisfaction questionnaire were surveyed. RESULTS: Twenty-nine emergency residents responded to the questionnaire after using the Google Hangouts. The number of participants before and after Hangout increased significantly in other two hospitals. All the residents answered that the score on achieving the learning goal increased before and after the videoconference lectures. All the residents answered that the training program is more satisfactory after using the Google Hangouts than before. CONCLUSION: All emergency residents were satisfied and were more confident after the remote videoconference education using the Google Hangouts than before.
Education ; Electrocardiography ; Emergencies ; Emergency Medicine ; Internship and Residency ; Learning ; Lectures ; Running ; Self-Assessment ; Ventilators, Mechanical ; Videoconferencing

OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to determine the effect of epidural analgesia on the first phase of labor and mode of delivery of nulliparous women. METHODS: We studied 170 nulliparous women at near-term who underwent spontaneous and induced labor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hanyang University Hospital from January 1999 to May 2000 prospectively. Eighty women who were received epidural analgesia for pain relief were compared to ninety women as control group. Cesarean delivery was performed when indicated. RESULTS: The demographic characteristics of the two groups were similar with respect to age, height, weight, gestational weeks, and gravida. The two groups had the same cervical dilatation at the time of analgesia. There were no statistically significant difference between two groups. The length of the first phase of labor was same between two groups(558.4+/-50.4 min. vs 452.1+/-46.7 min.). There were statistically significant differences in the instrument delivery and cesarean section rate between two groups(43 vs. 32, 8 vs. 16 respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Epidural analgesia provides safe and effective intrapartum pain control and may be administered without undesirable effects on the first phase of labor and delivery.
Analgesia ; Analgesia, Epidural* ; Cesarean Section ; Female ; Gynecology ; Humans ; Labor Stage, First ; Labor, Induced ; Obstetrics ; Pregnancy ; Prospective Studies