Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung und Qualitätssicherung
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Z Arztl Fortbild Qualitatssich · Oct 2004
[Patient safety and training in human factor--challenge for anaesthesia training].
Patient safety is a central issue for every hospital. Prerequisites are reliable routine processes, avoidance of accidents, and flexible management of incidents. In anaesthesia, ca. 80% of all incidents can be assigned to human factors (e.g. communication, management of workload, decision-making). ⋯ The individual modules and their methodological implementation are briefly presented here. Besides the communication of knowledge about human factors, we discuss the employment of computer-simulated low-fidelity scenarios and full-scale patient simulators. In principle, this integrative training strategy can be easily adapted to other related medical branches.