Team dynamics is your next video. It's all about communication during a cardiac arrest for an emergency. So keep in mind communication is key. How do we communicate, we want to make sure that we're communicating and a voice. It's loud enough for everybody else to hear. And we're also not using big words that other people may not be able to understand, pleases and thank yous are nice, but they typically don't happen in this type of situation.

But staying calm and communicating is going to be key. Now, during a cardiac arrest, how many people need to be in charge of that? One, it becomes very chaotic If more than one person wants to be in charge. And it's equally chaotic if nobody's in charge. So with that said, we have to establish a team leader. The team leaders job is to build their team immediately.

They don't even have to touch the patient. As long as there's enough team members. Their job is just to direct traffic. So the team leaders job initially is to say hey, I'm the team leader. Now the team leader wants to build their team. So you definitely want somebody doing compressions.

You want somebody taking care of the airway. You want somebody getting an IV and pushing drugs, you also want somebody on the defibrillator. And you also need somebody recording all of the events and timing your two minute cycle. And not a bad idea to have somebody who's talking with the family member, and updating them on the patient's status. So communication is absolutely key. Now, while you're building your team, or while they're your team is being built, if you're on the team, and the team leader asks you to do something that you don't know how to do outside of your scope of practice, or you're just uncomfortable doing it, not a bad idea to stand up and say, Hey, you know what, can't do that.

I'm afraid of it. And then ask for another job. That would be a great example of knowing your limitations because we don't want to do something that's going to get us in trouble or maybe make our patient worse. So, closed loop communication is going to be the last thing that we'll talk about and believe You'd probably do this all the time, you just don't even know you're doing it. So closed loop communication is basically me asking somebody to do something for me. Hey, Steve, I need you to push one milligram of epi, and then I'm gonna look him in the eye and Steve should repeat that order back to me.

Okay, one milligram of epi onboard. That's closed loop communication. Now, if we have a mistake during this communication, we stop and we fix it. So I say to Steve, Hey, Steve, one milligram of epinephrine, please. And he says, okay, Rodney, five milligrams of epi. Hold on a second.

Steve, I asked you to do one milligram of epi Oh, you know what you're right. So we fix that before we do something that we can't fix. So keep in mind close live communication is going to be one of the key points for team dynamics.