A Special CRM Collection: Exciting Crew Resource Management Topics Examples From Aviation and Emergency Medicine

This first volume of the Special CRM Collection is not a textbook in the conventional sense. Rather, we will explore intriguing crew resource management topics in twelve independent chapters using an array of real-life examples from emergency medicine, as well as aviation.

Along the way, you will learn a lot about (or refresh) crucial CRM concepts, such as leadership and decision-making, vital communication techniques and threat and error management, amongst others. Highly interesting cases, for instance Qantas Flight 32, will help you to remember these concepts easily.

A variety of didactic features will guide you as you put your knowledge into practice at your workplace. After all, it is crucial that we not only know about crew resource management, but also use it to our best advantage when we work together with our teams. In doing so, we can knit the safety net that helps us to minimise our mistakes and to make sure that errors are detected before they, for instance, put our patients´ lives at risk.

Dr. Eva-Maria Schottdorf has worked as a freelance prehospital emergency physician in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for more than ten years. She has trained as a CRM instructor in various formats and holds a CRM Course Trainer Certificate recognised by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, EASA.