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Setting Up a Stroke Team Algorithm and Conducting Simulation-based Training in the Emergency Department - A Practical Guide
Published on: January 15, 2017
Crew resource management and team training
Eswar Sundar1, Sugantha Sundar, John Pawlowski
1Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, CC-539, 1 Deaconess Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA. esundar@bidmc.harvard.edu
Abstract:
This article reviews medical team training using the principles of crew resource management (CRM). It also briefly discusses crisis resource management, a subset of CRM, as applied to high-acuity medical situations. Guidelines on setting up medical team training programs are presented. Team training programs are classified and examples of simulation-based and classroom-based programs are offered and their merits discussed. Finally, a brief look at the future of team training concludes this review article.
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