Rich over at the amazing St Emlyn’s blog did a fantastic post this week where he mentioned the “seriously awesome” Resus Room Management site (thanks Rich!) and the post I did about teamwork.  In it he described how he likens resus to his weekly “football” (read “soccer” for Aussies) matches.  His team is often heterogenous, […]

For my entire Emergency training, every time I intubated or sedated someone, or dealt with any resus patient from the head of the bed, I had to constantly look over my shoulder to look at a monitor that was attached to the wall behind me, whilst trying not to lose focus on the patient laying […]

Comparisons between aviation and medicine are commonplace, and have made their way into the medical literature, forming the basis for the attempts at application of CRM in medical settings. Whilst there are some common elements, such as being responsible for peoples lives in an error prone environment, CRM is an industry specific concept that has […]

Everyone’s been talking about this presentation by Cliff Reid from Resus.me, with good reason.  Cliff is a master resuscitationist, and in this talk he presents succinct job specific tasks that you can start doing tomorrow at work, to “Own the Resus”. You can also listen to the version from Essentials 2012 over at EM Tutorials […]

TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) is a program that has been developed in the US, that works from the “bottom up” to implement organisational change related to patient safety and teamwork (there’s that word again).  The program is based on a site-specific, comprehensive needs-analysis, and is followed by planning, […]

Cliff Reid has just done a great post over at Resus.me, on the utility of having a dedicated, hands-off, resus room safety officer, whose role is to ensure a checklist of items is monitored during resus, encompassing items such as Environment, Personnel, Patient Transfer to resus room bed, Clinical Plans and Action Prompts, and Patient […]

The aviation model of CRM, whilst tempting to adopt, is an industry specific set of skills and practices that has evolved over several decades, and is based on analysis of hundreds of airplane crashes, accidents and near-misses. To try and drag the concepts of CRM across and overlay them onto an entirely different industry is […]

The majority of hospital resuscitations occur in Emergency Department resus rooms.  Except in the most organised institutions, the group that assembles in ED resus rooms does not fit the definition of a “team”.  Use of the word “team” leads to false expectations, and feelings of failure when “teamwork” has not occurred. Teams train & practice […]

RRM, or Resuscitation Room Management is a new term, that has been created to try and define the tasks that individuals who participate in Emergency Department resuscitation can utilise to maximise patient safety, minimise error, enhance communication, and therefore bring about optimal patient outcomes.  RRM has been developed to try and define the non-clinical skills and […]

Welcome to resusroom.mx, a site dedicated to developing the principles of RRM, or Resuscitation Room Management.  The site will be frequently updated with posts, articles, interviews and discussion about the non-technical skills of resuscitation, focusing on the areas of leadership, communication, patient safety and patient flow, mainly from an Emergency Department perspective.  Please feel free […]