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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Improving Healthcare Systems

  • Explores how simulation can be applied to better understand and improve the processes and structures that surround and are integrated into healthcare systems
  • Promotes conversations among simulationists, healthcare providers, and experts from a variety of disciplines
  • Written and edited by leaders in the field and includes dozens of high-quality color illustrations and photographs

Part of the book series: Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation (CHS)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Simulation and Systems: The Big Picture and Overarching Principles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Nature of Systems in Healthcare

      • Siddarth Ponnala, Rupa S. Valdez, Kerry McGuire, Jose A. Valdez
      Pages 3-13
    3. Human Factors Applications of Simulation

      • Janet E. Anderson, Alastair Ross
      Pages 15-22
    4. Cognition and Decision Making in the Real World

      • Peter Dieckmann, Jan Bernhard Schmutz, Lillian Su
      Pages 23-29
    5. Overview of Simulation in Healthcare

      • Marjorie Lee White, Aditee Ambardekar
      Pages 31-35
    6. Foresight: How Simulation Can Promote Resilient Performance

      • Christopher Nemeth, Garth Hunte
      Pages 37-42
    7. Simulation in Healthcare: A Concept Map

      • Robert K. Armstrong Jr.
      Pages 43-50
  3. Practical Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
    2. Simulation to Improve the Capabilities of Individuals

      • Donald L. Boyer, Stanley Caplan, Shanique Brown Kilgallon, Samuel A. Rosenblatt
      Pages 53-58
    3. Simulation to Improve the Capabilities of Teams

      • Agathe Streiff, Katherine E. Law, Renaldo C. Blocker, Kimberly Blasius
      Pages 59-65
    4. Improving Handoffs Using a Systems Framework and Simulation

      • Karen Dunn Lopez, Jennifer O’Rourke, Meghan Brooks Lane-Fall, Joanna Abraham
      Pages 73-76
    5. Whiteboards that Work

      • Priyadarshini R. Pennathur, Ann M. Bisantz, Laura E. Schleelein
      Pages 85-90
    6. Tele-Simulation for Healthcare Team and System Improvement

      • Ichiro Watanabe, Anne M. Ades, Akira Nishisaki
      Pages 91-96
    7. Planning Patient Care Areas Using Simulation

      • Anjali Joseph, Jennifer Reid, James J. Kearney
      Pages 97-105
    8. Exploring New Hospital Patient Care Spaces Using Simulation

      • Jennifer L. Arnold, Sheila J. Bosch, Shabboo Valipoor
      Pages 107-115
    9. Airway Emergencies: Simulation for System-Wide Process Improvements

      • Alexandra Mannix, Amanda Crichlow Rutledge, John Fiadjoe, Steven A. Godwin, Kaalan Johnson
      Pages 117-122
    10. Simulation to Prepare for the Surge: Workload Management When There Are Too Many Patients

      • Sharon Griswold, Bethany R. Lowndes, Heidi Baer
      Pages 123-130

About this book

This book presents simulation as an essential, powerful tool to develop the best possible healthcare system for patients. It provides vital insights into the necessary steps for supporting and enhancing medical care through the simulation methodology.

Organized into four sections, the book begins with a discussion on the overarching principles of simulation and systems. Section two then delves into the practical applications of simulation, including developing new workflows, utilizing new technology, building teamwork, and promoting resilience. Following this, section three examines the transition of ideas and initiatives into everyday practices. Chapters in this section analyze complex interpersonal topics such as how healthcare clinical stakeholders, simulationists, and experts who are non-clinicians can collaborate. The closing section explores the potential future directions of healthcare simulation, as well as leadership engagement.

A new addition to the Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation Series, Improving Healthcare Systems stimulates the critical discussion of new and innovative concepts and reinforces well-established and germane principles.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    Ellen S. Deutsch, Harshad G. Gurnaney

  • University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, Jacksonville, USA

    Shawna J. Perry

About the editors


Ellen S. Deutsch, MD, MS
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine 
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Philadelphia, PA 
USA


Shawna J. Perry MD
University of Florida College of Medicine
Jacksonville, FL




Harshad G. Gurnaney, MBBS, MPH
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Philadelphia, PA 
USA








Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Improving Healthcare Systems

  • Editors: Ellen S. Deutsch, Shawna J. Perry, Harshad G. Gurnaney

  • Series Title: Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72973-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72972-1Published: 23 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72973-8Published: 22 July 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2366-4479

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-4487

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 240

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Anesthesiology, Health Care Management, Health Informatics, Medicine/Public Health, general

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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