Crisis, Crewmanship and CRM
Most ED folk are familiar with the CRM concept. It’s about teamwork, innit? And of course, we are all great at that. Go on – find someone in ED who says they are useless at teamwork! It would be like finding someone who says that they are absolutely rubbish in bed!
CRM stands for Crisis Risk Management. Or something. And it’s in a video about an air crash, where the air steward (who is a bit backward) doesn’t tell the chief pilot that he has just turned the engines off. The pilot is a cranky old fart who trained on biplanes. That’s called an “authority slope”.
You can do courses in CRM with SimMan. Just watch out when SimMan says he has crushing chest pain, because that’s when he’s about to have a cardiac arrest! Afterwards, they’ll ask you how you did, what went right, and what you could have done better. It’s a bit cringing really. Haven’t done one in years.
You know, this CRM thing is really a bit of a fad. Aside from air crashes in the 1970s, and fibrillating manikins, it doesn’t have much relevance to the real world. Does it?
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Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at The Alfred ICU, where he is Deputy Director (Education). He is a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, the Lead for the Clinician Educator Incubator programme, and a CICM First Part Examiner.
He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. He was one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) has been recognised for his contributions to education with awards from ANZICS, ANZAHPE, and ACEM.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Bluesky, he is @precordialthump.bsky.social and on the site that Elon has screwed up, he is @precordialthump.
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