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Mike Lauria. Enhancing Human Performance and Flow in Resuscitation Part 2: The Tao of Resuscitation Performance. EMCrit Blog. Published on March 19, 2015. Accessed on August 16th 2022. Available at [https://emcrit.org/emcrit/guest-post-enhancing-human-performance-and-flow-in-resuscitation-part-2-the-tao-of-resuscitation-performance/ ].
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Mike, Scott and all, Thanks for sharing your experience and helping us learn with FOAM. I still love all EMcrit offers. I was behind in my reading. It seems part of the discussion from this series is missing and was only briefly touched on in the comments. We can possibly screen for performance and resilience. I am certain we can train those skills for many especially those who screen well. What I see as missing in these discussions of human performance is the team. From my experience in PHARM it seems team-building needs to be part of this discussion. I… Read more »
Rick, You bring up a great question. In the circumstances you mention; I often prefer to go it pretty much alone with the help of the best RN available. I’m pretty much self-sufficient for a resus except I don’t know the lay of the land. The RN knows where things are, how they work, and what has happened with the patient up until that point. When an entire team is flash-created, flow is unlikely.
Hey Rick, Thanks for reading. I agree with Scott: First, great question…second, it is possible but unlikely. In my personal experience, having to incorporate with different special operations teams that already have a very strong culture of their own, operational procedures, etc. is difficult and takes time. Often, as a flight paramedic, my nurse partner and I have to fly out to a small, outside hospital where their staff is not very experienced at dealing with critically ill or injured patient. While getting everyone on board and functioning well can be done (recommend listening to some of the stuff by… Read more »