ABSTRACTS from 16th International COnference on ... - CRRT Online

SPECIAL LECTURE
Engineering Critical Care Medicine: A New Way to Protect Our Patients
Peter Brindley MD
3:00-3:25
Wednesday, February 15
Educational Objectives:
Explore how principles of process enginnering (W Dunn and D Angus) might be applied to Critical Care
Medicine with the goal of increasing safety; modernizing our "accidental cirriculum" and increasing patientfocused
care.
Gain better understanding of complexity of critical care and the role of safeguards
Understand a central role for crisis management training
Understand the benefits and perils of our current approach to error reduction
Content Description:
A long standing argument in medicine is whether what we do is better described as an "art" or as a "science".
While it is likely both, it is also useful to understand how principles of engineering also apply (personal communication
D Angus). This is especially if there is an increasing focus on patient safety. This idea will be discussed
and numerous examples presented. The limits of this analogy will also be explored with the hopes of retaining
the best of medicine while eradicating the worst.
Suggested Reading:
Brindley P.G. Patient Safety and Acute Care Medicine: Lessons for the future, insights <strong>from</strong> the past. Crit Care
2010
St Pierre et al. Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings. Springer Press 2008
A Gawande. The Checklist Manifesto 2009
M Gladwell Outliers 2008
C Chabris and D Simons. The Invisible Gorilla 2010
M Heffernan. Willful Blindness 2011
Dunn WF Chest 2010.
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