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- A critical incident is an unexpected event that could harm a patient, and debriefing helps teams discuss and learn from these events, though it’s often overlooked.
- This UK study analyzed the experiences of six perioperative practitioners through interviews to understand their perspectives on critical incident debriefing.
- Key findings revealed both benefits, like meeting staff needs and gaining insights, and challenges, such as time limitations and ineffective debriefs, leading to suggestions for better post-incident discussions and training.
Article Abstract
Background: A critical incident is described as any unplanned event which causes, or has the potential to cause, injury to a patient. Critical incident debriefing is a team discussion to gather facts and analyse the experience, evaluate lessons learned and provide staff with support. However, this phase is often neglected.
Methods: This UK-based explorative qualitative study aims to explore perioperative practitioners' experiences of critical incident debriefing. Data were collected from six participants through audio-recorded, semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using a thematic analysis framework.
Results: Five themes emerged detailing the advantages of critical incident debriefing, including addressing staff's personal needs and learning lessons from incidents, and the disadvantages such as time constraints and unsupportive/uninformative debriefs leading to poor-quality debriefs.
Conclusions: Implementation of a short debrief immediately post-incident to address immediate concerns, a later in-depth debrief and additional training for facilitators were recommended to improve debrief quality.
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