Swedish television reporting from our project
The last one and a half years I have been involved in a project concerning the development of a team training concept for health care staff. In 2008 the Lund University School of Aviation was contacted by anaesthesiologists at the hospital in the Swedish city Norrköping. They expressed concerns about the situations in which they perform emergency Caesarean sections, situations characterized by risks for two patients at the same time, and rapid organizational changes in which many different professions are brought in to the same situation. The last one and a half years I have been working together with two colleagues (Eric Wahren and Isis Amer-Wåhlin) in developing a concept for classroom-based interprofessional team training to work with this kind of high-risk situations in the health care domain. The result is a system similar in structure to the one used in aviation where basic and recurrent courses in "Crew Resource Management" (CRM) are mandatory for all pilots. We