Textbook of rapid response systems
Subtitle: concept and implementation
By: Michael A. DeVita, Ken Hillman, Rinaldo Bellomo, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780387928524; 9780387928531
Subjects: Patient Care Management; Health care teams; Hospital Rapid Response Team; Medical emergencies; Emergency services; Organization & administration; Hospital Emergency Service; Cardiac arrest; Prevention; Hospitals; Organizational Innovation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rapid response systems history and terminology; title: RR's general principles; title: Measuring and improving safety; title: Integrating a rapid response system into a patient safety program; title: Acute hospitalist medicine and the rapid response system; title: Medical trainees and patient safety; title: Rapid response systems: a review of the evidence; title: Healthcare systems and their (lack of) integration; title: Creating process and policy change in healthcare; title: The challenge of predicting in-hospital cardiac arrests and deaths; title: The meaning of vital signs; title: Matching illness severity with level of care; title: Causes of failure to rescue; title: Impact of hospital size and location on feasibility of RRS; title: Barriers to the implementation of RRS; title: An overview of the afferent limb; title: The impact of delayed RRS activation; title: The case for family activation of the RRS; title: RRT: nurse-led RRSs; title: MET: physician-led RRSs; title: Pediatric RRSs; title: Sepsis response team; title: Other efferent limb teams: (BAT, DAT, M, H, and trauma); title: Other efferent limb teams: crisis response for obstetric patients; title: Personnel resources for responding teams; title: Equipment, medications, and supplies for an RRS; title: The administrative limb; title: The second victim; title: RRSs in teaching hospitals; title: The nurse's view of RRS; title: Resident training and RRSs; title: Optimizing RRSs through simulation; title: Evaluating effectiveness of complex system interventions; title: RRS education for ward staff; title: Standardized process and outcome assessment tool; title: The impact of RRSs on choosing "not-for-resuscitation" status; title: The costs and savings.