Textbook of Rapid Response Systems Concept and Implementation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: DeVita, Michael A. (Editor), Hillman, Ken (Editor), Bellomo, Rinaldo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.

Textbook of Rapid Response Systems is designed to assist the medical practitioner or administrator to implement and improve a Rapid Response System, from the logistics of creating a Rapid Response System (including resource allocation, process design, workflow, and training), to the problem of patie...

Table of Contents:

• Section I: RRS’s and Patient Safety
• Rapid Response Systems History and Terminology
• RRS’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
• Health Care Systems and Their (Lack of) Integration
• Creating Process and Policy Change in Health Care
• 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
• Section II. Creating a RRS
• 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 RRS’s
• MET: Physician-led RRS’s
• Pediatric RRS’s
• 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 a RRS
• The Administrative Limb
• The Secondary Victim
• Section III. Monitoring of Efficacy and New Challenges
• RRS’s in Teaching Hospitals
• The Nurse’s View of RRS’s
• Resident Training and RRS’s
• Optimizing RRS’s Through Simulation
• Evaluating Effectiveness of Complex System Interventions
• RRS Education for Ward Staff
• Standardized Process and Outcome Assessment Tool
• The Impact of RRS’s on Choosing “Not For Resuscitation” Status
• The Costs and the Savings.