Overview
Successor to the groundbreaking book, DeVita, Hillman, and Bellomo, eds., MEDICAL EMERGENCY TEAMS (Springer, 2006)
Written by the world's leading innovators in the development of Rapid Response Systems
Provides advice, tips, and process guidelines from successful Rapid Response Systems
Up-to-the-minute, comprehensive, and essential content, including coverage of pediatric response systems, sepsis response teams, and much more.
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Front Matter
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RRSs and Patient Safety
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RRS’s and Patient Safety
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Creating an RRS
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About this book
Successor to the editors' groundbreaking book on medical emergency teams, Textbook of Rapid Response Systems addresses the problem of patient safety and quality of care; the logistics of creating an RRS (resource allocation, process design, workflow, and training); the implementation of an RRS (organizational issues, challenges); and the evaluation of program results. Based on successful RRS models that have resulted in reduced in-hospital cardiac arrest and overall hospital death rates, this book is a practical guide for physicians, hospital administrators, and other healthcare professionals who wish to initiate an RRS program within their own institutions.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This is an overview work describing the evolution and current practice of physician and nurse led rapid response programs. … Hospitalists, critical care trainees, and other hospital-based practitioners responsible for response to acute changes in patient condition are an appropriate audience for this book … . This book provides historical perspective, state-of-the-art reviews, and a summary of challenges facing practitioners using this tool to improve outcomes.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, May, 2011)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael A. DeVita, MD Professor, Critical Care Medicine University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Critical Medicine Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Ken Hillman, MBBS, MD, FRCA (Eng), FCICM Professor of Intensive Care Director of the Simpson Centre for Health Systems Research The University of New South Wales The Australian Institute of Health Innovation The University of New South Wales Liverpool, Australia
Rinaldo Bellomo, MD Chair, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney Honorary Principal Research Fellow, Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne Director of Intensive Care Research Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Department of Intensive Care Austin Hospital Melbourne, Australia
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Textbook of Rapid Response Systems
Book Subtitle: Concept and Implementation
Editors: Michael A. DeVita, Ken Hillman, Rinaldo Bellomo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92853-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-92853-1Published: 10 December 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 438
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations
Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology, Cardiology