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Trauma team leaders’ non-verbal communication: video registration during trauma team training

Overview of attention for article published in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, March 2016
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Title
Trauma team leaders’ non-verbal communication: video registration during trauma team training
Published in
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13049-016-0230-7
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URN
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-108083
Authors

Maria Härgestam, Magnus Hultin, Christine Brulin, Maritha Jacobsson

Abstract

There is widespread consensus on the importance of safe and secure communication in healthcare, especially in trauma care where time is a limiting factor. Although non-verbal communication has an impact on communication between individuals, there is only limited knowledge of how trauma team leaders communicate. The purpose of this study was to investigate how trauma team members are positioned in the emergency room, and how leaders communicate in terms of gaze direction, vocal nuances, and gestures during trauma team training. Eighteen trauma teams were audio and video recorded during trauma team training in the emergency department of a hospital in northern Sweden. Quantitative content analysis was used to categorize the team members' positions and the leaders' non-verbal communication: gaze direction, vocal nuances, and gestures. The quantitative data were interpreted in relation to the specific context. Time sequences of the leaders' gaze direction, speech time, and gestures were identified separately and registered as time (seconds) and proportions (%) of the total training time. The team leaders who gained control over the most important area in the emergency room, the "inner circle", positioned themselves as heads over the team, using gaze direction, gestures, vocal nuances, and verbal commands that solidified their verbal message. Changes in position required both attention and collaboration. Leaders who spoke in a hesitant voice, or were silent, expressed ambiguity in their non-verbal communication: and other team members took over the leader's tasks. In teams where the leader had control over the inner circle, the members seemed to have an awareness of each other's roles and tasks, knowing when in time and where in space these tasks needed to be executed. Deviations in the leaders' communication increased the ambiguity in the communication, which had consequences for the teamwork. Communication cannot be taken for granted; it needs to be practiced regularly just as technical skills need to be trained. Simulation training provides healthcare professionals the opportunity to put both verbal and non-verbal communication in focus, in order to improve patient safety. Non-verbal communication plays a decisive role in the interaction between the trauma team members, and so both verbal and non-verbal communication should be in focus in trauma team training. This is even more important for inexperienced leaders, since vague non-verbal communication reinforces ambiguity and can lead to errors.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Unknown 143 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 24 16%
Student > Master 22 15%
Researcher 20 14%
Other 13 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Other 26 18%
Unknown 30 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 51 35%
Nursing and Health Professions 28 19%
Psychology 9 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Engineering 3 2%
Other 19 13%
Unknown 33 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 April 2016.
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#6,750,605
of 22,858,915 outputs
Outputs from Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
#582
of 1,259 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#95,202
of 300,413 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
#18
of 51 outputs
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