Errors and interaction : a cognitive ethnography of emergency medicine / Sarah Bro Trasmundi, University of Southern Denmark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trasmundi, Sarah Bro, author.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 309.

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; 309

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency medical technician and patient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"Trasmundi combines her background as a cognitive ethnographer with theory of radical embodied cognition and interaction to investigate how healthcare practitioners manage cognitive events in patient treatment and diagnosing that often lead to human errors. This interdisciplinary focus emphasises how professional action underlines various forms of cognitive and social life that involves language, tools, organisational procedures, shared expertise, cultural values and social rules. The book investigates such phenomena which previously have fallen in the gaps between established disciplines of interaction analysis and psychology. In arguing that the multi-scalar constraints of professional action are still underexplored in a naturalistic setting of emergency medicine, Trasmundi uses tools such as multimodal interaction analysis and cognitive event analysis to investigate the cultural and distributed nature of cognition. The book provides the reader with a new take on this heavily investigated topic, both theoretically and methodologically by describing how medical culture affects real-time interaction and how culture itself is shaped by the exact same dynamics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I. Investigating errors in healthcare interaction

Chapter 1. The ecology of human errors in emergency medicine

Chapter 2. A cognitive ethnography of emergency medicine

Part II. Behind the scenes

Chapter 3. Presenting the case of the emergency ward

Chapter 4. Medical errors and visual perception

Chapter 5. The function of procedures in the diagnostic process

Chapter 6. Interruptions and multitask tolerance in emergency medicine

Chapter 7. Cultural dynamics

Chapter 8. Medical teams of experts and novices

Chapter 9. Documentation in the electronic medical record

Part III. The aftermath: The scientific enterprise

Chapter 10. The integration of multiple timescales

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.