Teamwork and Communication in Acute Care: A Teaching Resource for Health Practitioners
Abstract The need for cesarean birth is sometimes so urgent that regional anesthesia techniques such as spinal or epidural cannot be done quickly enough to safely deliver the baby. Primary general anesthesia for surgery is a rare event on the labor and birth unit, but is the only way in which cesare...
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| author | Neil Cowie Kalyani Premkumar Angela Bowen Susan Kuling Joann Kawchuk Mike Rooney Gary Morris Mark Burbridge Jocelyne Martel Joanne Sivertson David C. Campbell Cyril Coupal Kelvin Boechler |
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| description | Abstract The need for cesarean birth is sometimes so urgent that regional anesthesia techniques such as spinal or epidural cannot be done quickly enough to safely deliver the baby. Primary general anesthesia for surgery is a rare event on the labor and birth unit, but is the only way in which cesarean birth can occur without jeopardizing the health and safety of the baby and/or mother. While this represents a small number of patients overall (10–12 per year in the authors' unit), the outcome can be devastating for both mother and baby when this procedure is not well managed. The purpose of this resource is to improve patient safety and quality of care for patients who must have an emergency cesarean birth under primary general anesthesia. This quality improvement resource emphasizes teamwork and communication in the labor and birth unit during these critical and emergent times through a series of videos depicting a pregnant woman requiring emergency cesarean birth under general anesthesia. This web-based and interactive video format is used as a clinical example that emphasizes the importance of teamwork and communication in an interdisciplinary acute care setting. Further, it is the authors hope that engagement with these videos will provoke an emotional involvement that will prime the learner to more actively participate in other medical education exercises such as debriefings after medical simulations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ec21566f70e64c7aa8af664296f238b02022-12-21T16:35:07ZengAssociation of American Medical CollegesMedEdPORTAL2374-82652012-03-01810.15766/mep_2374-8265.9109Teamwork and Communication in Acute Care: A Teaching Resource for Health PractitionersNeil Cowie0Kalyani Premkumar1Angela Bowen2Susan Kuling3Joann Kawchuk4Mike Rooney5Gary Morris6Mark Burbridge7Jocelyne Martel8Joanne Sivertson9David C. Campbell10Cyril Coupal11Kelvin Boechler121 University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine2 University of Saskatchewan3 University of Saskatchewan4 Saskatoon Health Region5 University of Saskatchewan6 University of Saskatchewan7 University of Saskatchewan8 University of Saskatchewan9 University of Saskatchewan10 Prince Albert Parkland Health Region11 University of Saskatchewan12 University of Saskatchewan13 University of SaskatchewanAbstract The need for cesarean birth is sometimes so urgent that regional anesthesia techniques such as spinal or epidural cannot be done quickly enough to safely deliver the baby. Primary general anesthesia for surgery is a rare event on the labor and birth unit, but is the only way in which cesarean birth can occur without jeopardizing the health and safety of the baby and/or mother. While this represents a small number of patients overall (10–12 per year in the authors' unit), the outcome can be devastating for both mother and baby when this procedure is not well managed. The purpose of this resource is to improve patient safety and quality of care for patients who must have an emergency cesarean birth under primary general anesthesia. This quality improvement resource emphasizes teamwork and communication in the labor and birth unit during these critical and emergent times through a series of videos depicting a pregnant woman requiring emergency cesarean birth under general anesthesia. This web-based and interactive video format is used as a clinical example that emphasizes the importance of teamwork and communication in an interdisciplinary acute care setting. Further, it is the authors hope that engagement with these videos will provoke an emotional involvement that will prime the learner to more actively participate in other medical education exercises such as debriefings after medical simulations.http://www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9109TeamworkAcute CareCesarean Section |
| spellingShingle | Neil Cowie Kalyani Premkumar Angela Bowen Susan Kuling Joann Kawchuk Mike Rooney Gary Morris Mark Burbridge Jocelyne Martel Joanne Sivertson David C. Campbell Cyril Coupal Kelvin Boechler Teamwork and Communication in Acute Care: A Teaching Resource for Health Practitioners MedEdPORTAL Teamwork Acute Care Cesarean Section |
| title | Teamwork and Communication in Acute Care: A Teaching Resource for Health Practitioners |
| title_full | Teamwork and Communication in Acute Care: A Teaching Resource for Health Practitioners |
| title_fullStr | Teamwork and Communication in Acute Care: A Teaching Resource for Health Practitioners |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teamwork and Communication in Acute Care: A Teaching Resource for Health Practitioners |
| title_short | Teamwork and Communication in Acute Care: A Teaching Resource for Health Practitioners |
| title_sort | teamwork and communication in acute care a teaching resource for health practitioners |
| topic | Teamwork Acute Care Cesarean Section |
| url | http://www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9109 |
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