Elements of Effective Team Dynamics
Roles and Responsibilities
- Rescuers define roles clearly
- Delegate tasks according to skills
- Know limitations and ask for advice and help early
- Offer constructive intervention when an incorrect or inappropriate action occurs
Communication
- Share knowledge by sharing observations and feedback
- Summarize treatment record
- Reevaluate victim’s status, interventions and algorithm progress
- Inform members of victim’s changing conditions
- Use closed-loop communication
- Team leader assigns tasks by using member’s names and eye contact
- Team member repeats order and acknowledges his role. Inform team when task is done.
- Give clear messages using clear language, loud voice and calm tone
- Show mutual respect: talk in a respectful, friendly, calm and controlled voice. Avoid shouting and aggression
Coaching and Debriefing
- CPR coaching improves compressions quality and ventilation
- Debriefing occurs after resuscitation event
- Reflect on performance
- Identify points of improvements
