Comparison of high- and low equipment fidelity during paediatric simulation team training: a case control study.

Background: High-fidelity patient simulators in team training are becoming popular, though research showing benefits of the training process compared to low-fidelity models is rare. We explored in situ training for paediatric teams in an emergency department using a low-fidelity model (plastic doll) and a high-fidelity paediatric simulator, keeping other contextual factors constant. The goal was to study differences in trainees' and trainers' performance along with their individual experiences, during in situ training, using either a low-fidelity model or a high-fidelity paediatric simulator.

Creating an environment for patient safety and teamwork training in the operating theatre: A quasi-experimental study.

Introduction: Positive safety and a teamwork climate in the training environment may be a precursor for successful teamwork training. This pilot project aimed to implement and test whether a new interdisciplinary and team-based approach would result in a positive training climate in the operating theatre.

Method: A 3-day educational module for training the complete surgical team of specialist nursing students and residents in safe teamwork skills in an authentic operative theatre, named Co-Op, was implemented in a university hospital.

Simulation team training for improved teamwork in an intensive care unit.

Purpose: This study aims to describe implementation of simulator-based medical team training and the effect of this programme on inter-professional working in an intensive care unit (ICU).

Design/methodology/approach: Over a period of two years, 90 percent (n = 152) of the staff of the general ICU at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden, received inter-professional team training in a fully equipped patient room in their own workplace. A case study method was used to describe and explain the planning, formation, and results of the training programme.

Systematic simulation-based team training in a Swedish intensive care unit: a diverse response among critical care professions.

Background: Teamwork-that is, collaboration and communication-is an important factor for safe healthcare, but professions perceive the quality of teamwork differently.

Objective: To examine the relationship between simulation-based team training (SBTT) and different professions' self-efficacy, experienced quality of collaboration and communication, perceptions of teamwork and safety, together with staff turnover.

Methods: All staff (n=151; physicians, nurses and nurse assistants) in an intensive care unit (ICU) at a university hospital were systematically trained over 2 years.

Leaders' and followers' individual experiences during the early phase of simulation-based team training: an exploratory study.

Background: A growing body of evidence shows that team training can develop essential team skills and contribute to better patient outcomes. Current simulation-based team training (SBTT) programmes most often include targets and feedback focused on the whole team and/or leader, ignoring the follower as a unique entity. By considering followers' individual experiences, and tailoring behavioural targets for training and feedback, SBTT could be improved.

Target-focused medical emergency team training using a human patient simulator: effects on behaviour and attitude.

Context: Full-scale simulation training is an accepted learning method for gaining behavioural skills in team-centred domains such as aviation, the nuclear power industry and, recently, medicine. In this study we evaluated the effects of a simulator team training method based on targets and known principles in cognitive psychology.

Methods: This method was developed and adapted for a medical emergency team.

Central blood volume, atrial natriuretic peptide and intermittent hemodialysis.

Objective: Hypotension and decreased serum atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in response to hemodialysis have both been attributed to a decrease in central blood volume. The aim of this study was to test whether circulatory performance and serum ANP were related to changes in central blood volume, in conjunction with hemodialysis with loss of plasma volume.

Material And Methods: Ten uremic patients without cardiopulmonary symptoms were investigated before, immediately after and 2 h after a regular dialysis session.