Team dynamics in emergency surgery teams: results from a first international survey

Background: Emergency surgery represents a unique context. Trauma teams are often multidisciplinary and need to operate under extreme stress and time constraints, sometimes with no awareness of the trauma\u2019s causes or the patient\u2019s personal and clinical information. In this perspective, the dynamics of how trauma teams function is fundamental to ensuring the best performance and outcomes. Methods: An online survey was conducted among the World Society of Emergency Surgery members in early 2021. 402 fully filled questionnaires on the topics of knowledge translation dynamics and tools, non-technical skills, and difficulties in teamwork were collected. Data were analyzed using the software R, and reported following the Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys (CHERRIES). Results: Findings highlight how several surgeons are still unsure about the meaning and potential of knowledge translation and its mechanisms. Tools like training, clinical guidelines, and non-technical skills are recognized and used in clinical practice. Others, like patients\u2019 and stakeholders\u2019 engagement, are hardly implemented, despite their increasing importance in the modern healthcare scenario. Several difficulties in working as a team are described, including the lack of time, communication, training, trust, and ego. Discussion: Scientific societies should take the lead in offering training and support about the abovementioned topics. Dedicated educational initiatives, practical cases and experiences, workshops and symposia may allow mitigating the difficulties highlighted by the survey\u2019s participants, boosting the performance of emergency teams. Additional investigation of the survey results and its characteristics may lead to more further specific suggestions and potential solutions

Stewart, Wayne (FA 1307)

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1307. Student folk studies project titled: “Folk Remedies and Outlaw Tales,” which includes brief descriptions of folk remedies and outlaw tales in south central Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of belief, traditional practice, remedy, saying, outlaw tale, and informant’s name

IR spectroscopic investigations into reactions between unsaturated titanium complexes and CO or N2 in liquid xenon or heptane

The reactions of Cp*2TiR compounds with CO in liquid xenon (LXe) or heptane were studied by IR spectroscopy in special high-pressure cells. All complexes incorporate a single CO molecule to fill up their coordination sphere, forming Cp*2TiR(CO) intermediates. These species undergo secondary reactions at elevated temperatures, such as disproportionation to Ti(II) and Ti(IV) complexes. The formation of the 18 VE species Cp*2Ti(CO)2 seems to be the driving force of the observed reactions. A similar behavior was found in the reaction of Cp*2TiH with dinitrogen, where the adduct Cp*2TiH(N2) and its 14/15N2 isotopomer was identified together with Cp*2Ti(N2)2. In addition to these orientating experiments, the stable 15 VE Cp*FvTi (Fv = η6-C5Me4CH2) and 16 VE species Cp*AdTi (Ad = η7-C5Me3(CH2)2) show the addition of carbon monoxide to form new, reactive titanium carbonyls, which undergo ligand exchange reactions at higher temperatures and form Cp*2Ti(CO)2 as one of the final products.