Genres: Other
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

In the Special CRM Collection, we examine many an exciting and highly beneficial topic taken from the entire field of crew resource management (CRM). Real-life examples from aviation, the emergency medical services, as well as hospitals illustrate the CRM concepts in an easy-to-understand manner. Thus, you can apply them at your workplace immediately. In this second volume of the Special CRM Collection, the following themes accompany you as you perfect your teamwork for excellent results. Dealing With Human Factors The obstinate human factors have been summarised in the famous Dirty Dozen. We will scrutinise them one by one and reveal what you can do to minimise their effects on your work. Scene Safety, Violence at the Scene, Deadly Knife Attacks in Public Scene safety is vital in prehospital emergency medicine, not only when dealing with violence at the scene. We will highlight what professionals do to mitigate the hazards before...

Genres: Other
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

This first volume of the Special CRM Collection is not a textbook in the conventional sense. Rather, we will explore intriguing crew resource management topics in twelve independent chapters using an array of real-life examples from emergency medicine, as well as aviation. Along the way, you will learn a lot about (or refresh) crucial CRM concepts, such as leadership and decision-making, vital communication techniques and threat and error management, amongst others. Highly interesting cases, for instance Qantas Flight 32, will help you to remember these concepts easily. A variety of didactic features will guide you as you put your knowledge into practice at your workplace. After all, it is crucial that we not only know about crew resource management, but also use it to our best advantage when we work together with our teams. In doing so, we can knit the safety net that helps us to minimise our mistakes...