Hands-on time during cardiopulmonary resuscitation is affected by the process of teambuilding: a prospective randomised simulator-based trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiac arrests are handled by teams rather than by individual health-care workers. Recent investigations demonstrate that adherence to CPR guidelines can be less than optimal, that deviations from treatment algorithms are associated with lower survival rates, and that deficits in performance are associated with shortcomings in the process of team-building. The aim of this study was to explore and quantify the effects of ad-hoc team-building on the adherence to the algorithms of CPR among two types of physicians that play an important role as first responders during CPR: general practitioners and hospital physicians.

Methods

To unmask team-building this prospective randomised study compared the performance of preformed teams, i.e. teams that had undergone their pr

SUBMITTER: Hunziker S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2656452 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature