Figure 1

Team briefing checklist. Items used in the team briefing checklist. To guide the discussion, each item was followed by five possibilities: 1) crew only, 2) crew mostly, 3) evenly divided, 4) physician mostly, and 5) Physician only. The optimum allocation of tasks was based on qualifications, competencies, and experience (for example, the ambulance crew was not qualified to administer intravenous injections). The optimum allocation, in the authors' opinion, is marked for each item (X). ECG: electro-cardio-gram