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Clinical viva — the crisis management principles
A clinical viva on the crisis management — the leadership, the closed-loop communication, the situational awareness, the task management, the call for the help early, the cognitive aids (the crisis algorithms), and the debriefing.
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Prompt
A junior colleague asks how you manage an anaesthetic crisis. Walk them through the crisis resource management principles.
Stimulus
A junior colleague asks how you manage an anaesthetic crisis (the malignant hyperthermia, the anaphylaxis, the cardiac arrest). Walk them through the crisis resource management principles.
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- [42228456]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.