Rapid response teams: a proactive critical care approach.
Time and again, hospital code teams are dispatched to a patient in cardiac arrest only to find their resuscitative efforts unsuccessful. Are there earlier interventions that may have saved the patient? Do any warning signs exist before the patient actually goes into a full code or cardiac arrest event? The answer is a repeated yes, and the solution is a rapid response team.
Moore
Kim
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College of Medine, Mayo Clinic-Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing; D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013997:Time Factors; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration