Medical Emergency Teams Implementation and Outcome Measurement /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: DeVita, Michael A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hillman, Kenneth (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bellomo, Rinaldo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Services.; Emergency Medicine.

Why Critical Care Evolved METs? In early 2004, when Dr. Michael DeVita informed me that he was cons- ering a textbook on the new concept of Medical Emergency Teams (METs), I was surprised. At Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh we int- duced this idea some 15 years ago, but did not think...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Mets and Patient Safety
• Measuring and Improving Safety
• The Evolution of the Health Care System
• Process Change in Health Care Institutions: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
• The Challenge of Predicting In-Hospital Iatrogenic Deaths
• Overview of Hospital Medicine
• Medical Trainees and Patient Safety
• Matching Levels of Care with Levels of Illness
• Creating a Mets System
• General Principles of Medical Emergency Teams
• Potential Sociological and Political Barriers to Medical Emergency Team Implementation
• Overview of Various Medical Emergency Team Models
• Early Goal-Directed Therapy
• Nurse-Led Medical Emergency Teams: A Recipe for Success in Community Hospitals
• ICU Without Walls: A New York City Model
• Hospital Size and Location and the Feasibility of the Medical Emergency Team
• Medical Emergency Teams in Teaching Hospitals
• The Nurse’s Perspective
• The Hospital Administrator’s Perspective
• Personnel Resources for Crisis Response
• Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Medical Emergency Team Response
• Measuring Outcomes
• Resident Training and the Medical Emergency Team
• Teaching Organized Crisis Team Functioning Using Human Simulators
• Information Systems Considerations: Integration of Medical Emergency Team Clinical Indicators
• Evaluating Complex System Interventions in Patient Safety
• Integrating MET into a Patient Safety Program
• Are Medical Emergency Teams Worth the Cost?.