title: Crew resource management and team training.
abstract: This article reviews medical team training using the principles of crew resource management (CRM). It also briefly discusses crisis resource management, a subset of CRM, as applied to high-acuity medical situations. Guidelines on setting up medical team training programs are presented. Team training programs are classified and examples of simulation-based and classroom-based programs are offered and their merits discussed. Finally, a brief look at the future of team training concludes this review article.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, CC-539, 1 Deaconess Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA. esundar@bidmc.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Eswar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sundar
authors.forename: Sugantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sundar
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pawlowski
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Blum
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Feinstein
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pratt
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000639:trends; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016544:Patient Simulation