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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.
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