Evaluation of multidisciplinary simulation-based team training: the way forward for training ICU teams

Introduction In May 2010, The Helsinki Declaration for Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology was launched by the two major anaesthetic societies in Europe. The ICU environment is especially unforgiving for mistakes due to the multidisciplinary, time-critical nature of care and vulnerability of the patients. Human factors account for the majority of adverse events and a sound safety climate is therefore essential [1]. Endangerment of patients by deficits in the field of Human Factors (HF) is especially tragic, as it should be avoidable in most cases. Simulation trainigs provide a valuable tool to train the management of complex medical situations thus reducing the occurrence of fatal errors and increasing patient safety. We demonstrate the effects of trainigs by the means of a “ Preand Post-Training Self-Evaluation Questionnaire“ [2]. In addition, the debriefing after each training was evaluated by a standardised questionnaire (Debriefing Assessment for Simulation in Healthcare, DASH©).