Table 1.
Element covered | Situation | Number of videos |
Patient information; crisis communication | A group of patients is to be vaccinated without receiving warning that an electrical power outage occurred the night before, which broke the vaccination cold chain (system failure). | 2 |
Information for the patient and the patient’s family | Surgical material is left inside a patient that requires reintervention to extract the forgotten object. | 2 |
Support for the second victim; information for the family of a deceased patient (the person disclosing the information is a professional other than the one involved in the event) | A patient whose condition is severe dies after presenting postintubation laryngeal stenosis. The physician attending the patient exhibits emotional affection after committing an omission mistake during the patient’s resuscitation. | 2 |
Role of peers and supervisors in supporting the second victim; notification of incidents without harm | A nurse is emotionally affected after committing a route of administration error for a medicine that did not result in serious consequences for the patient. | 4 |
Role of managers in supporting the second victim | A physician becomes a second victim after committing a diagnosis error with serious implications for the patient’s health. After identifying the error and having a substitute professional inform the patient, the patient files a complaint. | 2 |
Preventive measures after an error deriving from a system failure | A nurse mistakenly administers to a patient a nonindicated medication due to incorrect storage of said drug. | 3 |