Hospitals are learning to translate the timing, synchronization and product innovation from Formula 1. First it was Aviation, then Toyota assembly line. Now physician are looking auto-racing pit crews for ways to improve healthcare quality and patient safety.
We all know the Formula 1 crews prepare the car in split seconds. They change the tire, oil and make the car perfect for the race in just 7 second. The key lesson for the Doctors, nurses and healthcare professional is how to work in team, in better synchronization, use briefing and checklist to prevent error. In formula 1 they have checklist, database and they have well defined processes for doing things.Hospital can use Formula 1 techniques in transition of patient from one department to other for better and fast recovery. London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children use F1 techniques to improve their handoff of pediatric heart surgery patients to intensive care, with results first published in the May 2007 issue of Pediatric Anesthesia.
The other piece we take from this is situational awareness. There are four separate crews changing tires and another person refueling the car, but the driver is aware of all those events going on around him and you can see him watching so he doesn't pull away before things are ready and can see whether or not a complication is developing. There are multiple conversations that may take place at one time and as a result people hear different things and are therefore not on the same page as to what the goal is in terms of management, or what to expect after the surgery.
In area of product innovation formula 1 team are also helping healthcare to create patient safety devices. The BabyPod is new F1 inspired solution to the hazard of transporting seriously ill babies and from hospital. The bay is placed in a self-contained structure similar in design to F1 driver’s cockpit. The structural strength of the light weight carbon composite allows the carrier to be placed in variety of transport, from car to transport.
F1 team use cutting-edge telemetry that monitor 150,000 measurements a second from over 200 sensor in the car and decide whether any adjustments are required during the race. Using real time remote monitoring technology, F1 engineers have developed a human telemetry system that feed back data on vital parameters to doctors monitoring patient.
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