Emergencies under influence

Personal experiences, testimonies of the importance of external cognitive biases, lived in unusual circumstances.

Cognitive biases are mental shortcuts or distortions of reasoning that occur unconsciously during decision-making.
Examples taken in a particular context, namely in the context of emergency surgery performed "OUTSIDE THE WALLS", i.e. in the field (humanitarian mission, war surgery in an isolated environment, participation of a surgical team in a disaster field), the stressful environment, the lack of time and often the overload of information, promote the appearance and development of these cognitive biases.
It is thus possible to "fail" during vital decision-making for the injured, this during the effect of HALO. :

"When the opinion we have of a person or a personality influences the value we give to the information they share and leads us to not stick to the facts.... »