Textbook of Rapid Response Systems

Michael A. DeVita, MD, FCCM, FRCPHarlem Hospital, Departments of Surgery and Internal Medicine, New York, NY, USADr. Ken Hillman, AO, MBBS, FRCA, FCICM, FRCP, MDUniversity of New South Wales, Liverpool Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, Liverpool, NSW, AustraliaRinaldo Bellomo, MDAustin Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, Heidelberg, Victoria, AustraliaAssociate EditorsDr. Mandy Odell, RN, PG dip, MSc, PhDRoyal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Critical Care, Reading, Berkshire, UK Dr. Daryl A. Jones Austin Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, Heidelberg, Victoria, AustraliaBradford D. Winters, MD, PhDThe Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USAGeoffrey K. Lighthall, MD, PhDStanford University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA 

Why Have a Rapid Response System? Cold with Fear: The Patient and Family Experience of Failure to Rescue.- Rapid Response Systems History and Terminology.- RRS's General Principles.- Measuring Safety.- Medical Trainees and Patient Safety.- RRS and the Culture of Safety.- Creating Process and Policy Change in Health Care.- The Assessment and Interpretation of Vital Signs.- Multiple Parameter Track and Trigger Systems.- Causes of Failure-To-Rescue.- Dying Safely.- Rapid Response Systems: A Brief Review of the Evidence.- Making the Business Case for a Rapid Response System.- Hospital size and Location and Feasibility of the Rapid Response System.- Barriers to the Implementation of RRS.- An Overview of the Afferent Limb.- The Impact of Delayed Rapid Response System Activation.- Nurse-Led Rapid Response Teams.- MET: Physician - led RRTs.- Pediatric RRSs.- Rapid Response Systems and the Septic Patient.- Other Efferent Limb Teams: Crises that Require Specialized Resources.- Crisis Teams for Obstetric Patients.- Personnel Resources for Responding Teams.- Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Rapid Response Team.- Governance of the Rapid Response System.- The Second Victim.- Rapid Response Teams in Teaching Hospitals.- The Nurse's View of RRS.- Opportunities for Resident Training with Rapid Response Systems.- Optimizing RRSs Through Simulation.- Evaluating Effectiveness of Complex System Interventions.- Rapid Response Systems: Education for Ward Staff Caring for At-Risk and Deteriorating Patients.- Setting up a Standardized Process and Outcome Assessment Tool.- The Impact of Rapid Response Systems on Not For Resuscitation (NFR) Orders.

"Textbook of Rapid Response Systems: Concepts and Implementation, Second Edition is a focused and concise update to the best evidence and expert opinion on the implementation and evaluation of the service. This book will serve as an accessible and effective reference guide for those clinicians and administrators wanting to fine-tune their existing RRSs as well as for those health systems contemplating starting the service." (Ritesh Maharaj, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 126 (6), June, 2018)

"This is the second edition of a multiauthored book describing the theory and organization of teams designed to identify patients developing critical illness outside the intensive care unit. ... Clinical leadership in hospitals considering or featuring a Rapid Response System are an appropriate audience for this work, along with their administrative partners. ... This update reflects studies in literature produced since the first edition was published in 2011." (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2017)