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The ‘Hidden C’

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In such situations, ‘soft skills’ such as teamwork, compassionate leadership, strong interpersonal communication, and psychological safety are essential. Incivility and clinical performance, teamwork, and emotions: a randomized controlled trial. Exposure to incivility hinders clinical performance in a simulated operative crisis.

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Learning about human factors in the emergency department

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Then the patient is rapidly moved to the operating theatre. Closed-Loop Communication Improves Task Completion in Pediatric Trauma Resuscitation. Challenging hierarchy in healthcare teams – ways to flatten gradients to improve teamwork and patient care. Communication is closed-loop. with a shared collective mindset. Andenæs, E.,

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A Simplified Approach to Managing the Difficult Airway in Children

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A 5-year-old boy with a past medical history of Crouzon syndrome presents in the Pediatric ED. How to perform a pediatric airway assessment There are lots of things to consider when evaluating the airway prior to any intubation(Table 1). Table 1: Airway assessment Can we predict a difficult pediatric airway?