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When medical teams can't align on time perception during critical events

Our ICU team all experienced the same patient's resuscitation differently — some of us felt like it took forever, others said it was over in seconds — and now when we debrief critical cases we can't agree on what actually happened or how long anything took, which is making it hard to learn from our experiences.

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Shared trauma creates individual time distortions that fracture collective memory and learning.

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“Where Are You with Near-death experience and time distortion?”

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