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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 4/2016

01-04-2016 | Editorial

Rapid response teams improve outcomes: yes

Authors: Daryl Jones, Francesca Rubulotta, John Welch

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 4/2016

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A rapid response team (RRT) is a group of clinicians who provide a rapid response to hospital patients showing objective or subjective signs of clinical deterioration. Calling criteria are based on abnormal vital signs and other significant clinical changes such as increased work of breathing, bleeding, or uncontrolled seizures [1]. A rapid response system (RRS) describes a whole hospital approach to improving the recognition and management of all at-risk and deteriorating patients. It consists of an afferent limb (the calling criteria and mechanism of activation), an efferent limb (the team itself), an administrative limb (which coordinates the day to day work of the team), and a quality improvement or governance limb. …
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Metadata
Title
Rapid response teams improve outcomes: yes
Authors
Daryl Jones
Francesca Rubulotta
John Welch
Publication date
01-04-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4219-5

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