BookMichael A. DeVita, Ken Hillman, Rinaldo Bellomo, editors.
Contents:
Rapid response systems history and terminology
RR's general principles
Measuring and improving safety
Integrating a rapid response system into a patient safety program
Acute hospitalist medicine and the rapid response system
Medical trainees and patient safety
Rapid response systems: a review of the evidence
Healthcare systems and their (lack of) integration
Creating process and policy change in healthcare
The challenge of predicting in-hospital cardiac arrests and deaths
The meaning of vital signs
Matching illness severity with level of care
Causes of failure to rescue
Impact of hospital size and location on feasibility of RRS
Barriers to the implementation of RRS
An overview of the afferent limb
The impact of delayed RRS activation
The case for family activation of the RRS
RRT: nurse-led RRSs
MET: physician-led RRSs
Pediatric RRSs
Sepsis response team
Other efferent limb teams: (BAT, DAT, M, H, and trauma)
Other efferent limb teams: crisis response for obstetric patients
Personnel resources for responding teams
Equipment, medications, and supplies for an RRS
The administrative limb
The second victim
RRSs in teaching hospitals
The nurse's view of RRS
Resident training and RRSs
Optimizing RRSs through simulation
Evaluating effectiveness of complex system interventions
RRS education for ward staff
Standardized process and outcome assessment tool
The impact of RRSs on choosing "not-for-resuscitation" status
The costs and savings.