This project was initiated to develop a phenomenology of team leadership and distant leadership in a highly dynamic, potentially extremely stressful domain: trauma patient resuscitation. A series of five studies were conducted to understand team leadership in trauma teams. One of the studies was a field experiment in which the location of the team leader was assigned to a distant location connected to the rest of the team through telecommunication ...
Decisionmaking in real life stressful environments is difficult to investigate yet critical to many military and civil operations. Using trauma patient resuscitation and anesthesia as a research vehicle we studied decision- making under stress in a real environment. We established video data acquisition systems in the admitting areas of a Level-l Shock Trauma Center. A multi-media database was accumulated using the system which contains videotapes of over 100 real cases, ...
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