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Old 5th May 2001, 15:25
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Clive
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Wig Wag,

You might find it interesting to know that Prof. Reason in the UK and Dr. Helmreich in the US are doing a lot of work on this issue.

In Australia there now exists a "CRM for Surgeons" course. A group of Doctors and an ex Qantas captain (Capt. Wynne) have spent the last 18 months or so devising the programme. They have Hospitals and Govt. departments on side and it looks as though this concept of Resource Management training for Medicos will grow.

Not before time according to my wife (a theatre nurse). If flightdecks were run in the way some operating theatres are run the accident rate in aviation would send everyone back to the horse and cart.

A very interesting article on the error production in hospitals and their relation to errors in aviation was printed in the Australian Civil Aviatin Safety Authorities (CASA) flight safety magazine about 2 months ago. It was an edited version of a presentation by Prof. Reason at the Aviation Pshycology Symposium at Manly in Sydney late last year.

Hope this was of interest to you.

Cheers.


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