Lessons from NASA helps manage threats, errors in pediatric cardiac surgery
Monday, April 28, 2014 - 18:01
in Health & Medicine
Investigators propose that NASA's "threat and error model" -- derived from analyzing >30,000 commercial flights and which explains >90% of crashes -- is directly applicable to pediatric cardiac surgery. Using their experience with aviation errors, NASA/FAA researchers generated a "threat and error model," and researchers suggest there are ways to adapt it to a clinical setting.