Psychology of trauma care

Trauma care should be easy… shouldn’t it?

So why doesn’t it feel easy?

The clinical component is the easy bit, the challenge is the non-technical factors.

Clare Richmond, Chris Hicks, Cliff Reid take us through a SMACCForce simulation debrief and discuss the human factors of trauma care.

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Cliff Reid

Involved in providing and teaching critical care in and out of the hospital. Fascinated by human factors. [@cliffreid]

Clare Richmond

Clare is an emergency physician and prehospital and retrieval medicine specialist working in Sydney, NSW. She is the director of training at Sydney HEMS and still returns to the Sydney Clinical Skills and Simulation centre to keep involved in the sim world. Her involvement in SMACC started with handing Simon Carley a large snake in Sydney and has continued through simulation and SMACCForce where we’ve pushed the boundaries of simulation in conferences. Outside of work she spends her time with her dog, Archie or practising and studying yoga. [@Drbear13]

Chris Hicks

Chris is an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a clinician educator and education research scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge institute, and appointee to the International Centre for Surgical Safety, with a program of research that focuses on simulation-based psychological skills training, human factors and clinical logistics. To that end, he has studied all sorts of peculiar stuff, from mental practice to stress inoculation training, in an effort to help make teams safer and more effective.

In 2018, Chris co-created and chaired resusTO, a unique resuscitation-focused simulation conference in Toronto. Chris is the project lead for the Trauma Black Box program, a first of its kind trauma safety and quality improvement endeavour. Chris’ clinical interests include trauma resuscitation, clinical logistics and getting things done in the resus room. Chris is an avid speaker and lecturer, staunch #FOAMed supporter, occasional runner, semi-retired pianist, and proud father of three lunatic boys. [@HumanFact0rz]