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Event Management in Emergency Situations

Learn how to utilize effective interdisciplinary teamwork between doctors, nurses, and other health care providers during emergency events.

Released:

February 27, 2015

Audience:

Physicians, Nurses, Nursing Students, Residents

Learning Objectives
  • Identify team roles and leadership structures that support safe and efficient airway management during emergency situations

  • Explain how role clarity, closed‑loop communication, and centralized leadership improve intubation coordination during resuscitation

  • Apply effective communication strategies to update team leadership on airway status, equipment readiness, and procedural progress during an emergency

  • Analyze breakdowns in teamwork or communication that may compromise airway security or delay intubation in crisis scenarios

  • Evaluate team performance during emergency airway management to identify opportunities for improving role assignment, information flow, and patient safety

Author(s)

Annette Imprescia, RN, CCRN

Staff Nurse, Department of Cardiology | Boston Children's Hospital


Traci Wolbrink, MD, MPH

Co-Director, OPENPediatrics; Co-Director, Center for Educational Excellence and Innovation; Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine | Boston Children’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Anaesthesia | Harvard Medical School

Citation

Imprescia A, Wolbrink TA. Event Management in Emergency Situations. 2/2015. Online Video. OPENPediatrics. https://learn.openpediatrics.org/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/3125/event-management-in-emergency-situations.

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