Trauma Team Dynamics: A Trauma Crisis Resource Management Manual

This is the first book exploring the unique dynamics created by a multidisciplinary trauma team and how crisis management strategies can improve teamwork and communication and, potentially, improve patient resuscitation outcomes.  Crisis resource management (CRM) is integral to the way that we manage ourselves, team members, and patients during emergency situations.  It is essentially the ability to translate knowledge of what needs to be done into effective actions during a crisis situation.  Building on the revolutionary American College of Surgeons Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS®) course, Trauma Team Dynamics illustrates the integration of the principles of CRM to team dynamics throughout the resuscitation –from the scene, through pre-hospital care and transport, to the trauma bay, and finally to definitive care and beyond.     The editors and contributors are international experts in trauma, critical care, emergency medicine, nursing, respiratory therapy,and pre-hospital care and include NASA- and United States military-affiliated experts.  Trauma Team Dynamics is intended for use as both a day-to-day clinical resource and a reference text, and includes self-assessment questions as well as guidance on CRM curriculum design and implementation.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS.- Dedication.- Foreword.- Preface.- Part 1: Trauma Team Preparation.- 1. The Genesis of Crew Resource Management: The NASA Experience.- 2. Crisis Resource Management Training in Trauma.- 3. Leadership Theories, Skills and Application.- 4. Teamwork and Communication in Trauma.- 5. Situational Awareness and Human Performance in Trauma.- Part 2: Trauma Team Design.- 6. Paramedical and Non-medical Personnel.- 7. Transport Medicine.- 8. Trauma Team Structure and Organization.- 9. Interprofessional Trauma Team Roles.- 10. The Trauma Bay Environment.- 11. Quality Improvement and Trauma Quality Indicators.- 12. Putting it all Together: Quality Control in Trauma Team Training.- Part 3: Trauma Resuscitation.- 13. Trauma Resuscitation.- 14. Damage Control Resuscitation.- 15. Damage Control─From Principles to Practice.- 16. Trauma Team Decision Making.- 17. Emergency Critical Care Procedures.- Part 4: Specialized Trauma Populations.- 18.Trauma in the Pediatric Patient.- 19. Trauma in Pregnancy.- 20. Medical Comorbidities and Trauma.- Part 5: Emergency Ultrasound and Trauma Imaging.- 21. Basic Trauma Ultrasound.- 22. Trauma Ultrasound: Beyond the FAST Examination.- 23. Telemedicine and Future Innovations.- 24. Imaging in the Stable Trauma Patient.- Part 6: Tactical Emergency and Disaster Medicine.- 25. Disaster Medicine.- 26. The Multi-Casualty Trauma.- 27. Critical Incident Team Dynamics and Logistics.- 28. Terrorism and Urban Trauma.- 29. Tactical Emergency Medicine, Procedures and Point-of-Care Evaluation in Austere Environments.- 30. Trauma in Austere Environments.- Cold Injury and Hypothermia.- 31. War Zones and Biologic Warfare.- 32. Nuclear Injuries.- 33. Trauma and Surgical Capabilities for Space Exploration.- Part 7: Trauma Team Education.- 34. Designing a Simulation Curriculum.- 35. Designing Multidisciplinary Simulations.- 36. Constructive Debriefing for Trauma Team Education.- 37.Program Evaluation and Assessment of Learning.- 38. Teaching Technical and Procedural Skills.- 39. Multiple Choice Review Questions.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.

About the Author :
Lawrence M. Gillman, MD MMedEd FRCSC            Department of Surgery University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada     Sandy Widder, MD FRCSC FACS MHA MSc QIPS Department of Surgery University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada     Michael Blaivas, MD Professor of Medicine School of Medicine University of South Carolina Columbia, SC   USA Department of Emergency Medicine  St. Francis Hospital Columbus, GA   USA     Dimitrios Karakitsos MD PhD DSc Department of Internal Medicine University of South Carolina, School of Medicine Columbia, SC   USA Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA   USA

Review :
“Trauma Team Dynamics is an appropriate expansion on the principles of ATLS. … An appropriate audience includes senior trainees or providers in emergency medicine, anesthesiology, orthopedics, or trauma surgery. … Each chapter has an adequate reference list with citations dating to within one to two years of publication as well as classic works from decades ago. … all are well written and providers of all degrees of sophistication will find helpful information here.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Book Reviews, July, 2016)