Past Chief St Mary's Advanced Life Support Unit Lexington Park, Maryland
Description: In its 1999 report, “To Err is Human,” the Institute of Medicine brought the issue of medical errors to light stating that “more people die in a given year because of medical errors than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS.” There is little evidence to indicate that there has been any progress made by the medical community to reduce these errors, and several recent studies show that the rate may be worsening. Commercial aviation, on the other hand, has made incredible progress over the last 50 years towards increasing safety and reducing risk in its operations. A large part of that effort has been addressing the role of human factors in mishaps and the use of risk and resource management techniques to minimize risk and reduce errors. This session will look at Risk and Resource Management (RRM) from an airline pilot perspective, draw similarities with EMS and show how providers can use similar strategies to reduce errors and minimize risk.
Learning Objectives:
Define the concepts of Error, Risk, Threats, and Resource Management as it applies to EMS.
Describe the four principles of Risk Resource Management
Learn methods to assess risk in EMS and identify techniques to minimize that risk.
Identify factors that lead to errors in EMS, and how to minimize them.
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