Human Factors in Airway Management: Designing Systems for Safer, Team-Based Care
Manuel Á Gómez-Ríos, Pavel Michalek, Tomasz Gaszyński, André A J Van Zundert, Michael Froelich · 2025
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Description
Manuel Gómez-Ríos and co-authors argue that safer airway care comes from better system design, not just better hands, in a 2025 article. Keeping a patient's airway open is high-stakes work, above all in emergencies. New tools, from video scopes to single-use devices, bring gains but also fresh failure modes.
The authors apply human factors thinking: how teams talk, how tools fit hands and habits, and how pressure bends judgment. They urge designing the whole system for team-based care, so errors are caught by layout and routine, not heroics. Checklists, role clarity, and device choice all feature. The piece gives airway teams a design lens for training and equipment decisions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Manuel Á Gómez-Ríos, Pavel Michalek, Tomasz Gaszyński, André A J Van Zundert, Michael Froelich |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |