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This topic really hit home. As a paramedic I’m big on logistics, and mainly trained in strategies. And the minute you started talking about it, I knew exactly what you mean. I’ve had many of the same thoughts while working in the ER and assisting with procedures. Now as a med student, I’m seeing this difference even more. I gotta say, one group that has mastered logistics (at least where I’m training) is the neurosurgeons in the OR. I shadowed them for awhile and all the residents and attendings seemed to know the logistical application of everything that was going… Read more »

Excellent podcast! One comment. I would argue that simulation can facilitate good logistics. In addition to its usual benefit of providing immediate reflective learning in the company of other resuscitationists, it can act as a rehearsal (not mental, but physical) to work through processes, find equipment, etc. There is a growing enthusiasm for simulation in-situ. You place the manikin in a resuscitation bed, present a critical patient, and have a multi-disciplinary team provide care using the equipment in your department rather than in a simulation laboratory or a few toys brought to an auditorium. They will have to make processes… Read more »

HI Scott could not agree more with you! ONly 3 days ago I helped out our retrieval registrar who was bringing in a lady with septic shock and renal failure from an outlying hospital 2 hrs flight away. I met the aircraft when it landed and when the doors opened the registrar looked a total wreck and promptly told me the woman was about to die! Anyway he had had to deal with two VT arrests inflight and was totally unprepared for running a code at 30000ft in the back of an aircraft with only him and a flight nurse.… Read more »

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[…] through what is about to happen at a much higher decibel.  Weingart mentions this philosophy in a recent podcast but this is not a frighteningly new concept to any of us.  This is the guiding principle of […]

Scott,

Agree that logistics is key! I imagine you are going to get into this but logistics also includes planning the future moves of the patient and what will be required to make those moves occur.

Mike

[…] been a busy week for Scott not only taking out top spot he also put out a second podcast on The Mind of a Resus Doc: Logistics over Strategy. This podcast which looks to be part 1 in a series that delve’s into the philosophies that […]

[…] I would do.  Of course, the where, what and who might vary from town to town.  A great example of logistics over strategy (see Emcrit).  So here is my plan, in Broome, with my kit and people.  I understand each of you would have a […]

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This podcast is being referenced at the Bedside Critical Care Conference in Australia today. Goes to show that the relevance of these podcasts lives on and the audience will continue to grow. Great work as usual Scott…

[…] Cognitive readiness requires that you consider emergency scenarios and decide on a plan. This starts with a textbook (by textbook I of course mean the internet) and reading what others think you should do in a given emergency scenario. The hard part of cognitive readiness is keeping up with the endlessly changing, endlessly disagreeing opinions, and deciding how to shape them into a plan that you like and that works for you in your environment. Logistics are key. […]

Hi Scott- I´m an anesthesiologist/intensivist from Berlin and a new fan of your fantastic site. I´m also a sailor with some 30000 nm in my personal wake, and most of my “resus philosophy” comes from the concept of “seamanship”. When I have new crew on the boat, I teach them how to prepare for foul weather with a similar approach as you describe here. One thing that comes to my mind when I see the image of the resus bay that comes with the title of your show: When you prepare for a storm, clean up the cabin and make… Read more »

Scott,

This one is one of my favorites.

Cheers

Damon

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[…] through some complex problems.  If the military analogy does not work for you, have a listen to Scott Weingart’s Podcast #49 – Mind ofthe Resus Doc: Logistics over Strategy.  It’s one of my favorites and a major inspiration for the checklists you will find below.  […]

[…] after courses like the excellent EMAC, I have become a fan of sim training to embed skills – logistics over strategy as Weingart would say (echoed by French & Le Cong), or ‘making things happen‘ as […]

[…] was the idea of logistics over strategy in resuscitation. Be sure you’ve listened to the episode before your next […]

[…] aspect of using the Oxylog proved to be a challenge. As always clinicians should think ‘logistics vs strategy‘. Hopefully the rural masterclass will go some way to addressing that […]

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[…] ideas dovetail nicely with Scott Weingart’s EMCrit Podcast 49 – The Mind of a Resus Doc: Logistics over Strategy. Scott emphasies the importance of visualising all the steps and potential complications as the key […]

[…] to implement actions in case of disaster. Scott Weingart has recently podcasted on the concept of logistics vs strategy, emphasising that knowledge of the former distinguishes a true expert from an amateur. It’s […]

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Absolutely amazing podcast that hit the homerun mark. I am with you. Please post more actual logistical procedure stuff that no one taught us. Things like how to set up and troubleshoot pleur-vac for chest tubes and how to set up pressure bags and how to operate infusion pumps, etc.

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[…] to implement actions in case of disaster. Scott Weingart has recently podcasted on the concept of logistics vs strategy, emphasising that knowledge of the former distinguishes a true expert from an amateur. It’s […]

[…] designed to bring care from the ICU into the emergency department. One of his recurring themes is “amateurs discuss strategy; experts discuss logistics.” On the education side, I plan to write about ways for educators to present material in a way that […]

[…] For a discussion on anticipating logistics over strategy in resuscitation go to this podcast at EMCrit […]

[…] strategy. Scott Weingart talks extensively on logistics for the solo provider (EMCrit on The Mind of a Resus Doc: Logistics over Strategy). Not only is preparing the gear for airway management, central line placement, drawing up […]

[…] referencing some of the titans of #FOAMed, it is worth considering the words of Scott Weingart (1), Cliff Reid (2) and (3) and Reuben Strayer (4). These posts have explored a phenomenon well […]

[…] ARE resuscitationists, and doing your non-urgent inpatient related duties for you interferes with doing this […]

[…] ideas dovetail nicely with Scott Weingart’s EMCrit Podcast 49 – The Mind of a Resus Doc: Logistics over Strategy. Scott emphasies the importance of visualising all the steps and potential complications as the key […]