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Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Medical Emergency Team in a Children’s Hospital
... response team on hospital-wide mor- tality and code rates outside the ICU in a Chil- dren ’ s ...sponse team in a children ’ s ...code team to a medical emergency team and ...
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Does Medical Emergency Team Intervention Reduce the Prevalence of Emergency Endotracheal Intubation Complications?
... Purpose: Emergency endotracheal intubation (EEI) is a complex process that leads to various ...the Medical Emergency Team (MET) intervention reduced the incidence of cardiac arrest, however, ...
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Effectiveness of the Medical Emergency Team: the importance of dose
... Medical Emergency Team (MET) differs from other RRTs in that the team leader is a physician, typically with intensive care ...trained team improves ...
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Long term effect of a medical emergency team on cardiac arrests in a teaching hospital
... Introduction It is unknown whether the reported short-term reduction in cardiac arrests associated with the introduction of the medical emergency team (MET) system can be sustained. Method We ...
Performance of the efferent limb of a rapid response system: an observational study of medical emergency team calls
... It is well documented that serious adverse events (SAEs) such as cardiac arrest, unanticipated intensive care unit (ICU) admission and unexpected death among hospital- ized patients frequently are preceded by signs of ...
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Clinical Profile of Hospitalized Children Provided With Urgent Assistance From a Medical Emergency Team
... arrest team” that had operated previously for the management of cardiorespiratory ar- rest on the ...The team is composed of an ICU doctor, ICU nurse, emergency department doctor, and a hospital ...
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The impact of a nurse led rapid response system on adverse, major adverse events and activation of the medical emergency team
... the medical records ...three medical charts (Gearing, Mian, Barber, & Ickowicz, 2006) were assessed for the flow of information in order to identify the established charting processes used in the ...
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The effect of team leader stress on teams practicing cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a simulation room : an exploratory study into the effect of team leader stress on team leader behaviour, closed loop communication, and team performance of a simulated medical emergency team
... the team (Davis et ...the medical state of the patient has been ...with medical emergency teams, that CLC is only effective in algorithm-driven tasks, and not in knowledge- driven ...
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Medical Emergency Team: How do we play when we stay? Characterization of MET actions at the scene
... of medical staff in 121 ...the team stayed at the scene was 35 (20 – 50) ...for medical inpatients was significantly higher than that for surgical ...24/7 medical cover on the wards, with the ...
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Bench to bedside review: The MET syndrome – the challenges of researching and adopting medical emergency teams
... a medical emergency team Despite positive attitudes toward the MET system, nurses may not always follow the predetermined MET activation criteria or may fail to recognise when assistance is ...
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Incidence of cardiac arrests and unexpected deaths in surgical patients before and after implementation of a rapid response system
... the medical emergency team (MET) immediately if a serious situ- ation existed or if the patient did not stabilize after an initial ...physician-led team including a critical care physician and ...
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Medical dispatchers recognise substantial amount of acute stroke during emergency calls
... a medical profession (before it was police officers with no medical training) and the criteria-based dispatch tool Danish Index for Emergency ...
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A revolutionary approach to improving combat casualty care
... of Emergency Medicine as a specialty its role and reputation was sharply established and the conditions were set to lead transformational change in doctrine, training and ...
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The Danish prehospital emergency healthcare system and research possibilities
... of Denmark (see Fig. 1). Within the framework of Da- nish legislation, each region is responsible for healthcare services such as general practitioners, EMS and hospi- tals, whereas the municipalities are responsible for ...
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Emergency medicine in the United Arab Emirates
... examination. Medical school gradu- ates apply for residency through the National Resident Matching ...of Emergency Medicine, which is modeled after the American Board of Emergency ...for ...
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4,871 Emergency Airway Encounters by Air Medical Providers: A Report of the Air Transport Emergency Airway Management (NEAR VI: “A-TEAM”) Project
... be made given the study design, our findings suggest that this group of pre-hospital providers who receive elaborate initial training and ongoing assessments to maintain intubation skill, practicing within a ...
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When complexity science meets implementation science: a theoretical and empirical analysis of systems change
... complexity science, and tease out some of the properties of healthcare systems that enable or constrain the goals we have for better, more effective, more evidence-based care. Two Australian examples, one largely ...
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The association of clinical frailty with outcomes of patients reviewed by rapid response teams: an international prospective observational cohort study
... Results: Amongst 1133 patients, 40% were screened as frail, which was associated with older age ( p < 0.001), admission under a medical speciality ( p < 0.001), increased severity of illness at the time of ...
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Design and implementation of a medical student hazardous materials response team: the Medical Student HazMat Team
... every team member, but for some team members, they were difficult to use because they need at least one hand free to press the button that allows them to talk over the ...as team members become more ...
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Standard operating procedure changed pre-hospital critical care anaesthesiologists’ behaviour: a quality control study
... Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are detailed writ- ten instructions developed to achieve uniformity in the performance of a specific task. SOPs are an integrated part of many high-risk organisations e.g. aviation ...
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