Textbook of Rapid Response Systems

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.