Framing trauma leaders’ request in emergency care interactions

A team leader’s request is a crucial factor for successful interaction to ensure patient safety in emergency care. This study examines how leaders accomplish and frame immediate requests through language use corresponding eye-movement patterns care simulation, focusing on when the led by senior doctor (SD) it junior (JD). The included two foundation doctors, who are their first years medical practice, department (ED) nurses one ED expert. They were recorded undertaking separate simulated operations patient, leader wore eye-tracking glasses. Interactional linguistic multimodal analyses of video, audio data revealed that SD made members with emphasis – i.e., gazed at recipients addressed them verbally, especially asking recipients’ actions while JD often used only gaze requesting such actions. Although our has limitations terms small size data, findings nevertheless highlight was framed ascribed continuum from question an instruction co-construction joint action social interaction.