Background Non-technical skills (NTS) concepts from high-risk industries such as aviation
have been enthusiastically applied to medical teams for decades. Yet it remains unclear …

Injury is now recognized as a disease that carries a significant public health burden. The
care of the severely injured patient spans many domains—prehospital, emergency room …

Caring for multisystem trauma patients encompasses all the technology and techniques of
modern critical care. Practitioners must secure life and limb, conserve organs in acute peril …

Multidisciplinary simulation has been used to successfully teach crisis resource
management in operating room and emergency department settings. This article describes a …

Introduction Background trauma survivors in rural areas transferred to urban centers have
higher mortality than trauma patients admitted directly to urban centers. Transfer data in …

Simulation has become a popular and ubiquitous medical education tool. In response to
learner demands, and because of technological advancement, there is a trend toward …

Summary The Standardized Trauma and Resuscitation Team Training (STARTT) course
focuses on training multidisciplinary trauma teams: surgeons/physicians, registered nurses …