Effects of team coordination during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A systematic review of the literature

Challenges in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – A study combining closed-circuit television (CCTV) and medical emergency calls

“…In-hospital studies show that non-technical skills, such as situation awareness, decision-making, leadership, communication and teamwork, enhance performance. 21,22 Basic life-support courses could focus on gathering a team and the various tasks for bystanders: resuscitation, communication with dispatcher, quality CPR, receiving the ambulance, retrieving an AED and calling out for help from any healthcare professionals among the bystanders. We should think of the dispatcher and the bystanders as "the first resuscitation team" at the scene, the ambulance personnel are the second team and the receiving team at the hospital as the third-essentially a chain of resuscitation teams performing many of the same tasks.…”

Factors relating to the perceived management of emergency situations: A survey of former Advanced Life Support course participants’ clinical experiences

“…Likewise were the inclusion of suggestions made by co-workers in the decision making. Clear inter-personal communication has been emphasized in the resuscitation literature [18][19][20] , but mostly in the form of training the individual to give clear and direct commands and application of closed-loop communication whereas issues of including coworkers' perspectives and contributions are not emphasised. Our results correspond well with a recent study indicating that educators should turn their attention to include not only the individual team members' knowledge and skills, but also their awareness of team members' abilities and the tacit and explicit shared mental models and shared expectations 21 .…”

“…This suggests that the ALS provider courses need to focus on both own and co-workers' social skills. The social aspects of team collaboration have been emphasised in earlier studies suggesting that training should go beyond medical/technical individual training (efficiency) to include coordinating behaviour adapted to each situation 2,7,20 . Future research should focus on social skills and on how to identify, develop and train these skills.…”

Organizational Approaches to Improving Resuscitation Effectiveness

“…34 The major conclusion from these studies is that it is not enough for resuscitation teams to simply exist and respond to cardiac arrest; rather, they must function with good leadership and effective communication. 35,36 The strong conceptual model for an impact of high-functioning teams on the quality of resuscitation efforts begs the question of why this beneficial effect has been difficult to demonstrate or detect in clinical practice. First, there is a difference between resuscitation from cardiac arrest and triage or treatment of a deteriorating patient, which is the more typical situation encountered by a RRT.…”