Dr. Paul E. Phrampus, FACEP, FSSH, is the Director of UPMC’s Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education and Research (WISER Center), as well as a Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology of the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine and Medical Director for Patient Safety at UPMC. Sharing his passion for [...]
The Aviation Industry has fully realized the limitations of human processing, better defined as Cognitive Load Theory – meaning that a person has a finite amount of memory which can be overloaded with stimuli or facts and thus become unable to retain or engage new knowledge. Hence, things like “checklists” for every possible emergency scenario [...]
