Human Factors in Resuscitation

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Clinical Skills Centre

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Course Overview

Even the most technically gifted clinicians can experience failure in a resuscitation attempt if team dynamics break down. This pioneering course shifts the focus away from basic mechanical procedures to explore the critical, non-technical skills that dictate survival rates in real-world emergencies. Frontline professionals will uncover how communication, leadership, and situational awareness directly influence patient outcomes when every second counts.

Why This Course Matters

This training focuses on helping clinicians defeat cognitive overload by understanding how stress, acute fatigue, and extreme environmental pressures can impair clinical performance, while providing practical strategies to counteract these effects. Participants will also learn how to eliminate fixation errors by developing mental frameworks that support sustained situational awareness, reducing the risk of missing critical changes in a patient’s condition due to tunnel vision. In addition, the course emphasises optimising team synchronisation, equipping healthcare professionals with the skills to transform a group of talented individuals into a cohesive, high-performance resuscitation team capable of operating seamlessly under pressure.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is vital for any healthcare professional or clinical team member operating within acute, emergency, or high-dependency settings:

Resuscitation Teams, A&E Staff, & Paramedics running frontline emergency responses.
Intensive Care, Critical Care, Anaesthetic, & Theatre Teams managing complex, volatile patients.
Doctors, Junior Doctors, Nurses, & Healthcare Assistants wanting to minimise errors under pressure.
Clinical Educators & Simulation Trainers looking to embed modern human factors principles into their own curricula.

Healthcare Organisations aiming to radically reduce clinical errors and optimise patient safety.

COURSE FORMAT

Flexible E-learning: Self-paced remote learning featuring highly interactive clinical cases, algorithmic decision trees, and expert-guided explanations.
Face-to-Face Teaching: High-energy, classroom-based workshops utilising facilitated peer discussions, real-world case applications, and clinician-led teaching.

In-Person Booking

Secure your place early. Spaces are limited due to small group teaching.

KEY FEATURES

Deep dive into the psychological impacts of stress and fatigue on clinical decision-making.

Practical blueprints for establishing clear role allocation and managing heavy team workloads.

Immersive learning utilising simulation and video-based reflections of real-world resuscitation scenarios.

Strategies for cultivating psychological safety, allowing team members to voice concerns during crises.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Deploy Structured Communication: Flawlessly utilise closed-loop communication to eliminate clinical misunderstandings.
Establish Command & Leadership: Execute clear team leadership, distribute workloads dynamically, and fully support team members under pressure.
Maintain Shared Situational Awareness: Ensure the entire resuscitation team shares an identical, accurate understanding of the clinical scenario.
Reflect and Improve: Critically analyse team behaviours post-event to continuously upgrade emergency performance.

WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE DIFFERENT

This isn't another course on advanced life support algorithms. It focuses purely on the behavioural science of the resuscitation room. By dissecting actual human behaviours, communication breakdowns, and environmental stressors, it provides a practical, non-technical toolkit that transforms high-pressure chaos into structured, safe, and highly effective emergency care.

In-Person Booking

Secure your place early. Spaces are limited due to small group teaching.