• Oliver Happel, Tim Papenfuss, and Peter Kranke.
• Klinik und Poliklinik für Anästhesiologie des Universitätsklinikums Würzburg. happel@o@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de
• Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther. 2010 Jun 1;45(6):408-15.

AbstractThe focus on the role of non-technical skills such as communication, dynamic decision making, situational awareness and teamwork in emergency medicine has gained importance over the past few years. Especially during time-critical and complex treatment of severely injured patients in a multidisciplinary and interprofessional trauma-team these factors play an important role for patient-safety and process optimization and are a key factor influencing the perceived quality of a given scenario by the team members. Thus, apart from medical expertise and technical excellence of single actors within a trauma team, non-technical skills need to be incorporated in trainings for trauma management. For the improvement of non-technical skills, particularly team communication and teamwork, a simulator-based training represents a valuable tool. The technical performance of portable manikin-based simulators has improved tremendously during the last decade, which facilitates realistic and true-to-life multidisciplinary team-training in trauma management.Copyright (c) Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart-New York.

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