Geoffrey Lighthall
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Using in situ simulation to improve in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010; (5): 209-16
There is widespread recognition that the conduct of cardiac resuscitation is problematic. In situ simulation has been used to train and evaluate cardiac arrest teams' performance in the hospital setting, but in work at a university-affiliated, tertiary care facility, the simulated cardiac arrests were used to understand how well health care providers and their environment function during arrests, with the goal of a rapid intervention to correct problem areas. Latent conditions--innate, mostly hidden, workplace factors--can have a large detrimental impact on resuscitation efforts.
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