Why saying what you mean matters: An analysis of trauma team communication.

Background: We hypothesized that team communication with unmatched grammatical form and communicative intent (mixed mode communication) would correlate with worse trauma teamwork.

Methods: Interdisciplinary trauma simulations were conducted. Team performance was rated using the TEAM tool.

Identifying Nontechnical Skill Deficits in Trainees Through Interdisciplinary Trauma Simulation.

Objective: The goal of this study was to investigate nontechnical skills in a simulated trauma setting both before and after a debriefing session in order to better understand areas to target for the development of educational interventions.

Design: Wilcoxon signed rank tests were used to compare scores on the 5 domains of the T-NOTECHS pre- and postdebriefings. A qualitative analysis using the PEARLS debriefing framework was performed to provide a rich description of the strategies used by the debriefing facilitators.

The Impact of a Flexible Care Area on Throughput Measures in an Academic Emergency Department.

Introduction: Crowding in emergency departments is a multifaceted problem. We hypothesized that implementing an on-call "Flexible Care Area" (FCA), utilizing multiple front-end throughput solutions, would reduce ED length of stay (LOS).

Methods: This retrospective study evaluates the impact of an FCA on ED throughput at one hospital over a 2-year period (2011-2012).

Fabrication and characterization of nonplanar microelectrode array circuits for use in arthroscopic diagnosis of cartilage diseases.

A process to fabricate nonplanar microelectrode array circuits was developed and the microelectrodes were characterized. These platinum microelectrode arrays are for recording streaming potential signals generated during indentation of articular cartilage. The nonplanar substrate was produced by permanent deformation of a 7-in-diameter circular stainless-steel wafer to form 32 semi-spherical caps (radius of curvature = 4.