An extended version of the Rasmussen’s Dynamic Safety Model for measuring multitasking behaviors during medical emergency

Abstract

An extended version of the Rasmussen’s Dynamic Safety Model was implemented to empirically index team activity during a medical emergency. The video recordings of two emergency training sessions during the simulation of an adverse event with two paramedical teams were analyzed with a coding scheme based on the model. We show that individual’s allocation of perceptions and actions to multiple work constraints (i.e., patient’s state monitoring, information processing with team, and equipment management) can be dynamically tracked.