BACKGROUND: Safe surgical practice requires a combination of technical and nontechnical
abilities. Both sets of skills can be impaired by intra-operative stress, compromising …

Simulation for medical and healthcare applications, although still in a relatively nascent
stage of development, already has a history that can inform the process of further research …

Background Operating-room crises (eg, cardiac arrest and massive hemorrhage) are
common events in large hospitals but can be rare for individual clinicians. Successful …

Organizations are increasingly becoming dynamic and unstable. This evolution has given
rise to greater reliance on teams and increased complexity in terms of team composition …

The historical roots of simulation might be described with the broadest definition of medical
simulation:“an imitation of some real thing, state of affairs, or process” for the practice of …

Debriefing is a lynchpin in the process of learning. As a post-experience analytic process,
debriefing is a discussion and analysis of an experience, evaluating and integrating lessons …

Several gaps exist in the training of clinicians in health care domains, such as
anesthesiology, that have the cognitive profile of complexity and dynamism. These features …

Simulation is a complex social endeavor, in which human beings interact with each other, a
simulator, and other technical devices. The goal-oriented use for education, training, and …

Background Surgical skills are required by a wide range of health care professionals. Tasks
range from simple wound closure to highly complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures …

BACKGROUND: To better understand the operating room as a system and to identify system
features that influence patient safety, we performed an analysis of operating room patient …