Naturalistic decision - making in emergency medical services

Michael A. Rosen; Ian Coffman; Aaron Dietz; P. Daniel Patterson; Julius Cuong-Pham

doi:10.1201/9781315280172

Naturalistic decision - making in emergency medical services

Michael A. Rosen, Ian Coffman, Aaron Dietz, P. Daniel Patterson, Julius Cuong-Pham

School of Medicine

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EMS workers navigate an environment filled with uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, complexity, and, at times, conditions that pose risk to their personal safety all while managing complex patient care tasks. They make life and death decisions under these extreme conditions. An EMS worker must diagnose injuries and diseases, assess risks, prioritize treatment options, and manage the social environment. The process of decision-making is central to all of these tasks. Therefore, a detailed understanding of how expert EMS workers make decisions can be invaluable for designing systems to support their work as well as developing new expert EMS workers as efficiently as possible.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Human Factors and Ergonomics of Prehospital Emergency Care
Publisher	CRC Press
Pages	41-52
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315280165
ISBN (Print)	9781482242515
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315280172
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
Business, Management and Accounting(all)
Engineering(all)

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