title: Change in Cardiopulmonary Arrest Response in an Anesthesiology Residency: A practice-based learning initiative.
abstract: Because of increases in the acuity in our patient population, increasing complexity of the care provided and the structure of our residency, we decided to systematically alter our participation in the hospital-wide cardiac arrest system. The need to provide optimum service in an increasingly complex clinical care system was the motivation for change. With substantive input from trainees and practitioners, we created a multi-tier-system of response along with predefined criteria for the anesthesiology response. We report the result of our practice based learning initiative.
authors.affiliation: Resident, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.
authors.forename: Amgad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takla
authors.affiliation: Resident, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.
authors.forename: Ihab
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dorotta
authors.affiliation: Resident, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Staszak
authors.affiliation: Professor of Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Case Western Reserve University; Vice Chair for Education, Anesthesiology Institute.
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Tetzlaff