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Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie 1/2018

01-01-2018 | Book and New Media Reviews

Optimizing Crisis Resource Management to Improve Patient Safety and Team Performance - A handbook for acute care health professionals

Peter Brindley, Pierre Cardinal (Editors). ©Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada 2017, pdf document, 60 pages. Endorsed by the Canadian Critical Care Society and Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses. ISBN: 978-1-926588-41-4

Author: Laura V. Duggan, MD, FRCPC

Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie | Issue 1/2018

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This monograph is available electronically, free-of-charge, in both English and French via the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. It is divided into six short chapters that reflect the core components of crisis resource management: attention and awareness, decision-making, verbal communication, task management, leadership and followership skills, and teamwork. The editors, Peter Brindley and Pierre Cardinal, should be commended for bringing together a panel of experts from the fields of both medicine and psychology. They also succeeded in concisely integrating language and ideas that are often non-medical and non-intuitive into the acute-care field. …
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Title
Optimizing Crisis Resource Management to Improve Patient Safety and Team Performance - A handbook for acute care health professionals
Peter Brindley, Pierre Cardinal (Editors). ©Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada 2017, pdf document, 60 pages. Endorsed by the Canadian Critical Care Society and Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses. ISBN: 978-1-926588-41-4
Author
Laura V. Duggan, MD, FRCPC
Publication date
01-01-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie / Issue 1/2018
Print ISSN: 0832-610X
Electronic ISSN: 1496-8975
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-017-0958-1

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