Improving Resuscitation Skills and Reducing Critical Errors
Hyper-realistic immersive team training focuses on improving individual and team performance across the continuum of care; correlating team training efficacy and communication with long term unit cohesion, leadership, and resiliency
Case Study Details
- Resuscitation Time after the intervention dropped to 13.9 minutes; 42% improvement
- Number of Critical Errors: 1.13; 78% improvement
- Individual confidence levels increased to 90%; 64% improvement
- Demonstrated skill retention at 6 months
- Evidence based best practices for civilian trauma, military combat trauma, and clinical practice guidelines
- Topics range from triage, basic trauma physiology, blood product utilization, pain management and different complex trauma injury patterns
- focus on non-technical teamwork skills
- communications
- coordination and effective communication
- clinical practice guidelines
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- Estimating: Did not exceed budget allocated for ED improvements
5 days
- 22 hours of didactic
- 28 hours of team based simulation
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- Estimating
- Existing Staff Participation
- Consultant to build computer model and perform data collection of actual metrics
- Baseline Resuscitation Time: 24.4 minutes
- Number of Critical Errors: 5.2
- Individual confidence levels 55%
- Less than optimal management of ED patients
- Less than optimal management of deteriorating patients
- limiting the teams ability to treat 9% more patients
Decision Maker Talking Points
- 42% improvement in team based resuscitation skills
- 78% improvement in fewer Critical Errors
- Skills retained at 6 months
- 64% improvement in individual confidence
- Increased retention of staff with better employee morale
- 78% improvement in fewer Critical Errors
- Skills retained at 6 months
- 64% improvement in individual confidence
- better employee morale translates into lower turnover and lower staff hiring and training costs
- 42% improvement in team based resuscitations
- 78% improvement in fewer Critical Errors
- Skills retained at 6 months
- 64% improvement in individual confidence
- Significant improvement in team based communications
- 42% improvement in team based resuscitations
- 78% improvement in fewer Critical Errors
- Skills retained at 6 months
- 64% improvement in individual confidence
- Significant improvement in team based communications
- Significant improvement in team based communications
- 42% improvement in team based resuscitations skills
- 78% improvement in fewer Critical Errors
- 64% improvement in individual confidence
- Significant improvement in team based communications
- 42% improvement in team based resuscitation skills
- 78% improvement in fewer Critical Errors
- 5 day immersive course
- 42% improvement in team based resuscitation skills
- 78% improvement in fewer Critical Errors
- Significant improvement in team based communications
- 5 day immersive course
- 22 hours didactic, 28 hours team based simulation