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Textbook of Rapid Response Systems [electronic resource] : Concept and Implementation / edited by Michael A. DeVita, Ken Hillman, Rinaldo Bellomo.

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Table of 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.