Format: 4-hour multidisciplinary team-training program
Includes: Introductions, Review of Principles, Game Play, Trigger Tapes, 3 Scenarios combined with structured Debriefing
Venue: In-situ
Frequency: Monthly
Participants: Physicians, nurses, RT, and allied healthcare who work in CICU.
Expertise Level: Trainee through Senior Level

Highlights/Objectives (3 Course Types by Topic):

(1) General Crisis resource management (CRM) principles

Event management

Role clarity

Communication

Personnel support

Situational Awareness

Evaluation of hospital systems and procedures

Latent safety threat identification and analysis

(2) CICU ECMO Team Training

Course utilizes a novel integrated ECMO cannulation skills trainer allowing for highly realistic simulation of technical aspects of the cannulation process, fully engaging surgical providers (both attending cardiothoracic surgeons and surgical trainees) in the interdisciplinary team training program.

CRM Principles applied to successful ECMO management

Team approach to ECMO Cannulation

Troubleshooting ECMO: Team Approach

(3) Conflict Resolution in the CICU

Professional Actors participate in roles of family members.

Developed to aid clinicians in supporting and interacting with families under stress during a crisis.

Developed in response to physician, nurse and respiratory therapy (RT) needs assessments.

Lecture elements include review of CRM as well as evidence-based strategies to working with stressed families during stressful situations in the CICU.