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Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings: Human Factors and Team Psychology in a High Stakes Environment |
Author: Michael St. Pierre
Published: 2007-11-01 |
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 The book we've been waiting for!
This is the book we've been waiting for. I am a human factors specialist and an educator with more than 30 years experience, of which more than 20 have been in the field of high performance, hight stakes teams in aviation and medicine. Currently I am the Director of Education at the Center for Medical Simulation in Cambridge MA. Once or twice a month a clinician asks how can I learn about the principles of Crisis Resource Management. Until now, the answer led them on a long trail of discovery. Finally, we have a book that answers the question! This is the book for all clinicians who want to learn about the field of the psychology of high performance teams who work in high stakes environments. I agree with the first reviewer that this book is accessible and readable and informative. As reviewer #2 says, perhaps there are some phrases that are not quite right for American English, but the book remains readable and informative. The bibliography does have a more international flavor than other American-centric books, but it is rich and informative. The interested reader is given plenty of outstanding references to pursue. At the Institute for Medical Simulation, a jointly sponsored endeavor of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the Center for Medical Simulation, it is the most highly recommended book for our students who want to learn about the principles of crisis resource management.
 Definitely worth reading, but ...
Overall the authors present the psychology of medical crisis management in a very readable and succinct format.
Unfortunately, this book cannot hide the fact that it is translated from an original published in German (in 2005): on numerous occasions the authors take liberties with the English language that will strike Anglo-American readers as "odd". Further, from an academic perspective it is frustrating to discover that a substantial number of the cited references are from German language publications and therefore of no use to the intended English-speaking readership.
My recommendation to the editors would be to enlist the help of an English-speaking medical translator in the preparation of the 2nd edition and to limit the number of German language references to an absolute minimum.
A valuable resource for understanding behavior in crisis situations
The concisely written book fills an important niche in the literature about team training and crisis management. Each chapter begins with a clinical vignette that highlights key issues in team interactions and decision-making in crises in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The body of each chapter then explores relevant concepts about individual/team psychology, all in a language accessible to clinicians without being overly theoretical, which is an important strength of this book. Indeed, for busy clinicians who frequently encounter high-stakes medical crises, each chapter promotes self-reflection. Similarly, for medical and nursing educators who lead debriefings of simulated crises, this book provides important insights and a framework to facilitate discussion about the development of medical errors, leadership issues, team interactions and communication, and threats to perceived feelings of competency and other factors that alter clinicians' behaviors in high-stress situations. A must-read!
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