RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 S.T.A.R.T.T. plus: addition of prehospital personnel to a national multidisciplinary crisis resource management trauma team training course
JF Canadian Journal of Surgery
JO CAN J SURG
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 9
OP 11
DO 10.1503/cjs.010915
VO 59
IS 1
A1 Lawrence M. Gillman
A1 Doug Martin
A1 Paul T. Engels
A1 Peter Brindley
A1 Sandy Widder
A1 Cheryl French
YR 2016
UL http://canjsurg.ca/content/59/1/9.abstract
AB The Simulated Trauma and Resuscitation Team Training (S.T.A.R.T.T.) course is a unique multidisciplinary trauma team training course deliberately designed to address the common crisis resource management (CRM) skills of trauma team members. Moreover, the curriculum has been updated to also target the specific learning needs of individual participating professionals: physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists. This commentary outlines further modifications to the course curriculum in order to address the needs of a relatively undertargeted group: prehospital personnel (i.e., emergency medical services). Maintenance of high participant satisfaction, regardless of profession, suggests that the S.T.A.R.T.T. course can be readily modified to incorporate prehospital personnel without losing its utility or popularity.