Buying time, saving lives: hospital rapid response teams find ways to reduce mortality outside the ICU.
Many studies in recent years have shown that many critical cardiovascular and respiratory events in hospitals are preceded by warning signs hours before the events themselves occur. Two facilities have created award-winning rapid response teams that are making a difference for not only the patients who encounter these critical events but the entire organization as well.
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