• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • West Midlands Ambulance Service [WMAS]
    • Publications - West Midlands Ambulance Service
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • West Midlands Ambulance Service [WMAS]
    • Publications - West Midlands Ambulance Service
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of amberCommunitiesPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsJournal TitleThis CollectionPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsJournal TitleProfilesView

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    About amber

    About amberGeneral Policies Terms of DepositSuggest an addition to amberamber Advisory NoteBrief Guide to searching amber

    Statistics

    Display statistics

    Better together? Ambulance staff views of human factors in resuscitation

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Average rating
     
       votes
    Cast your vote
    You can rate an item by clicking the amount of stars they wish to award to this item. When enough users have cast their vote on this item, the average rating will also be shown.
    Star rating
     
    Your vote was cast
    Thank you for your feedback
    Author
    Miller, Joshua cc
    Keyword
    Emergency Medical Services
    Resuscitation
    Cardiac Arrest
    Human Factors
    Journal title
    Emergency Medicine Journal
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/1283
    DOI
    10.1136/emermed-2015-204980.8
    Abstract
    Background Research into the care of cardiac arrest patients outside of hospital is limited. Evidence from hospital settings suggests that human factors including both technical and non-technical skills and performance may impact on care. This study sought staff views from a UK ambulance service aiming to investigate areas for improvement in resuscitation performance. Methods Volunteer ambulance staff responded to an open invitation to complete an anonymous internet-based survey. The survey used a mixture of closed questions, Likert-scaled answers and free text to explore staff views on resuscitation performance. Quantitative responses were presented graphically, and free text answers arranged by theme. Results 111 staff responded to the survey. The results demonstrated that staff see effective teamwork as desirable in out-of-hospital resuscitation, but that this is not always the case currently. Staff felt more confident about practical skills such as cannulation and chest compression delivery. Difficulties were noted in: poor communication between staff members; inconsistent identification and nomination of leaders; low staff confidence in peri- and post-cardiac arrest conversations with relatives; and insufficient staff numbers on scene. Conclusions The findings demonstrate poor staff confidence in several non-technical skills, including teamwork and communication. Limitations of the survey included lack of recording of training received—where this has shifted in recent years from in-service to higher education routes—and missing demographic data. However, the findings provide specific areas for improvement activity. This has already included best practice slides displayed in ambulance stations, and proposals for identification wristbands, a role-based work standard to reduce task omission and duplication, and a policy to send higher numbers of rescuers to cardiac arrest cases. https://emj.bmj.com/content/32/6/e14.2. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2015-204980.8
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1136/emermed-2015-204980.8
    Scopus Count
    Collections
    Publications - West Midlands Ambulance Service

    entitlement

     

    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2023)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.