Task Load Negatively Affects Critical Care Air Transport Team Performance in Simulation

We observed a negative association between physicians' self-rated Frustration, Mental Demand, Temporal Demand, Performance, and Effort and the total TEAM score-a pattern not observed among RNs or RTs. Physicians were the only provider type to both recognize team underperformance and attribute it to perceived shortcomings in their own performance. Although all MD and RN task load dimensions were correlated-likely reflecting task sharing between the 2 roles-only physicians' self-reported task load measures were associated with their team's non-technical skills performance.