What is it about?
Cardiac arrest is a true emergency requiring an immediate response. This review draws from human medicine to examine how leadership, teamwork, situational awareness and communication can be understood and optimised to best promote patient and team welfare.
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Why is it important?
CPR is often thought of as a set of physical skills performed together to achieve a return of spontaneous circulation and survival. It is critical, however, for this to be considered alongside human and team factors. As a discipline, human factors are an emergent focus in medicine, but there is a lack of guidance for veterinary teams. This review examines how these factors can be applied to veterinary medicine and the impact that correct utilisation has on patient and team outcomes.
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Human factors are an underrepresented area of veterinary medicine, and I fervently believe that harnessing them correctly can have a real and measurable impact on patient outcomes and team experience. This article has permitted me to advocate for CPR teams that perform efficiently, with frameworks in place to foster an all-around more positive experience.
Rachel Hallam
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This page is a summary of: The importance of the team in small animal CPR, The Veterinary Nurse, April 2024, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/vetn.2024.15.3.96.
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