Textbook of Rapid Response Systems

Michael A. DeVita, MD, FCCM, FRCP

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

New York, NY, USA

The Voice that is Missing Personal Impact of Failure to Rescue.- Causes of Failure to Rescue.- Rapid Response Systems and the Culture of Safety.- Systems Thinking Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.- A Brief History of Rapid Response Systems.- Rapid Response Systems General Principles.-The Overview of the Afferent Limb.- The Overview of the Afferent Limb.-Track and Trigger System Identifying and Predicting Patient Deterioration Through Scores and Algorithms.- Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring for Early Detection of Deterioration Outside High Intensity Care Settings.- When Patients (And Families) Raise the Alarm Patient and Family Activated Escalations Systems As a Safety Strategy for Hospitals.- Impact of Delayed Rapid Response System Activation.-Overview of the Efferent Limb.- Tiered Rapid Response Systems.- MET Physician Led Rapid Response Teams.-Use of Protocols during a Rapid Response Event.- Equipment Medications and Supplies for a Rapid Response Team.- Rapid Response for Dying Patients Without Not for Resuscitation Orders.- Crisis Teams for Obstetric Patients.- Rapid Response Systems in the Emergency Department.- Second Victims Care for Caregivers Using a Rapid Response Model.- Hospital Rapid Response Systems and Disasters.- Other Efferent Limb Teams.-Measuring Complex and Macro Research in Rapid Response Systems.- Governance of the Rapid Response System.-The Resuscitation Officer Responsibilities and Impact.- Ward Staff Education in the Age of Rapid Response Systems.- Simulation Based Training for Rapid Response Systems in Medical Education, a Review.-Crisis Resource Management Training the Responders.- Measuring the Quality of Rapid Response Applying the Quadruple Aim to Patient Safety.- Rapid Response System Informatics.- Rapid assessment Critical Events (RACE) Team Medical Directives.- Emerging Research Topics in Rapid Response.-The Role, Determinants And Impact Of RRS On End-Of-Life Care Orders.- Rapid Response for Patients with End of Life Needs.- Rapid Response Systems and the Management of the End of Life.- Rapid Response Systems in Australia and New Zealand.-Rapid Response Systems in Europe.-Rapid Response Systems in Asia.-Rapid Response Systems in Central and South America.-Rapid Response System in Africa.-Pediatric Rapid Response Systems: Introduction.-Recognition of Clinical Deterioration in Children.-Intensity of Care in Pediatric Rapid Response Systems.-Pediatric Rapid Response System: Re-direction of Care.-The Rapid Response System: Building and Maintaining the System.-Parents, Patients, Ward Clinicians and other Stakeholders in the Rapid Response System.-The Approach to the Child with Hypotension. -Practical Approach to the Child with Rapid Breathing.-Approach to the Child with reduced level of consciousness.-Rapid Response Systems: Neonatal Model.- Metrics to Monitor the Function and Performance of the Pediatric Rapid Response System.-Rapid Response teams in Mass Casualty Incidents.