html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> CHAPTER 11 Guidelines, Checklists and Protocols Learning Outcomes By the end of this chapter you should be able to demonstrate an understanding of: why guidelines, checklists and protocols…
Background to Clinical Error The United States was the first country to investigate clinical error systematically. In 1984, Brennan et al. looked at 30,121 admissions to New York hospitals and…
Maintenance of SA demands vigilance and good monitoring at all times. It may easily be lost if agreed actions, protocols or guidelines are not followed or do not have the…
Klein (1993, 1995, 1998) describes versions of recognition-primed decision making. At the basic level, the decision maker recognises the situation and knows an appropriate response. When the situation is more…
Box 4.1 A junior doctor was asked to examine a child with blunt chest trauma, and correctly identified that the chest movement was asymmetrical and that the percussion note was…
Box 5.1 A senior surgeon walks into the emergency department to review a patient in the resuscitation room. He does not introduce himself and is not wearing any identification, though…
Forensic Photography in the Emergency Department William S. Smock Patrick E. Besant-Matthews A good photograph…is one which conveys to the observer something which he has not seen, known, or thought…
New Drugs of Abuse K. Sophia Dyer Alcohol still holds the lead as the most common drug of abuse and “social lubricant.” However, many other drugs are used and abused…
Testifying Sharon A.H. May Role of the Sexual Assault Health Care Examiner The sexual assault health care examiner, be it a physician, nurse, physician’s assistant, or forensic nurse examiner (FNE),…
