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Critical situations in acute and emergency care are one of the great clinical challenges. The nature of such care, involving uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, and stress, makes this domain particularly vulnerable to errors in patient treatment. It has been increasingly acknowledged over the past decade that safe practice in these circumstances depends on a thorough understanding of the sources of human error. Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings is unique in providing a comprehensive outline of all the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care.  This newly revised edition has emerged from a long-standing cooperation between clinicians and psychologists, who have worked together again to enlarge and update each chapter. The strengths of the two professions have been blended into a readily accessible text which will help both physicians and non-physicians to better understand the principles of human behavior and decision making in critical situations and thus to avoid errors and provide safer treatment.

Crisis management. --- Emergency medical services. --- Emergency. --- Intensive Care -- organization & administration. --- Medical Services -- organization & administration. --- Patient Care Team. --- Personnel Management -- methods. --- Emergency medical services --- Crisis management --- Health Services --- Organization and Administration --- Patient Care --- Patient Care Management --- Psychology, Social --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Therapeutics --- Health Services Administration --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Health Care --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Emergency Medical Services --- Critical Care --- Medical Errors --- Personnel Management --- Patient Care Team --- Group Processes --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Anesthesiology --- Crises --- Management of crises --- Emergency health services --- Emergency medical care --- Management --- Medicine. --- Anesthesiology. --- Emergency medicine. --- Critical care medicine. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Problem solving --- Conflict management --- Emergency medicine --- Medical care --- Rescue work --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Medicine --- Intensive care units --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Anaesthesiology --- Surgery

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This book addresses all issues relevant to error prevention and safe practice in the acute and emergency health-care setting. It begins with the basic principles of human behavior and decision making and then partitions into three sections where the individual, the team, and the organizational influences within the health-care system are discussed in greater depth. Case reports and proven strategies help to ground psychological theory in daily practice. This book has emerged from a long-standing cooperation between clinicians and psychologists. Blending the strengths of both professions into a readily accessible text has created a book which will hopefully help both physicians and non-physicians to better understand the principles of human behavior and decision making in critical situations and in turn enable them to provide safer treatment. Unsuspected medical crisis and emergency situations may be managed more effectively and an increased awareness of contributing factors may help to avoid errors from the outset.

Emergency medical services. --- Crisis management. --- Crises --- Management of crises --- Management --- Problem solving --- Conflict management --- Emergency health services --- Emergency medical care --- Emergency medicine --- Medical care --- Rescue work --- Anesthesiology. --- Emergency medicine. --- Critical care medicine. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Medicine --- Intensive care units --- Anaesthesiology --- Surgery --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies