Part I RRSs and Patient Safety
Chapter 1 Why Have a Rapid Response System? Cold with Fear: The Patient and Family Experience of Failure to Rescue
Helen Haskell
Chapter 2 Rapid Response Systems History and Terminology
Bradford D. Winters and Michael DeVita
Chapter 3 RRS’s General Principles
Ajay D. Rao and Michael DeVita
Chapter 4 Measuring Safety
Bradford D. Winters, Peter J. Pronovost, Marlene Miller, and Elizabeth A. Hunt
Chapter 5 Medical Trainees and Patient Safety
Steve Lam, Arthas Flabouris
Chapter 6 RRS and the Culture of Safety
Ken Hillman, Hadis Nosrati and Jeffrey Braithwaite
Chapter 7 Creating Process and Policy Change in Health Care
Stuart F. Reynolds and Bernard Lawless
Chapter 8 The Assessment and Interpretation of Vital Signs
John Kellett
Chapter 9 Multiple Parameter Track and Trigger Systems
John Asger Petersen
Chapter 10 Causes of Failure-To-Rescue
Marilyn Hravnak, Andrea Schmid-Mazzoccoli, Eliezer Bose, Michael R. Pinsky
Chapter 11 Dying Safely
Magnolia Cardona-Morrell, Ken Hillman
Chapter 12 Rapid Response Systems: A Brief Review of the Evidence
Bradford Winters
Chapter 13 Making the Business Case for a Rapid Response System
Shane C. Townsend
Part II Creating an RRS
Chapter 14 Hospital size and Location and Feasibility of the Rapid Response System
Daryl Jones and Rinaldo Bellomo
Chapter 15 Barriers to the Implementation of RRS
Oluwaseun Davies, Michael A. DeVita, Ken Hillman
Chapter 16 An Overview of the Afferent Limb
Gary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Alex J. Psiridesd
Chapter 17 The Impact of Delayed Rapid Response System Activation
Daryl Jones, Christian Subbe, Rinaldo Bellomo
Chapter 18 Nurse-Led Rapid Response Teams
Kathy D. Duncan, Terri Wells, Amy Pearson
Chapter 19 MET: Physician – led RRTs
Daryl Jones and Rinaldo Bellomo
Chapter 20 Pediatric RRSs
Christopher P. Bonafide and Patrick W. Brady
Chapter 21 Rapid Response Systems and the Septic Patient
Patrick Maluso, Babak Sarani
Chapter 22 Other Efferent Limb Teams: Crises that Require Specialized Resources
Dan Shearn, Francesca Rubulotta, Michael DeVita
Chapter 23 Crisis Teams for Obstetric Patients
Patricia Dalby, Gabriella G. Gosman, Karen Stein, David Streitman, Nancy Wise
Chapter 24 Personnel Resources for Responding Teams
Sonali Mantoo, Michael DeVita, Andrew W Murray, John J Schaefer III
Chapter 25 Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Rapid Response Team
Edgar Delgado, Rinaldo Bellomo, Daryl Jones
Chapter 26 Governance of the Rapid Response System
Melodie Heland, Daryl Jones
Part III Monitoring of Efficacy and New Challenges
Chapter 27 The Second Victim
Susan D. Scott, Laura E. Hirschinger, Myra McCoig, Karen Cox, Kristin Hahn-Cover, Leslie W. Hall
Chapter 28 Rapid Response Teams in Teaching Hospitals
Max Bell, David Konrad
Chapter 29 The Nurse’s View of RRS
Mandy Odell, Nicolette Mininni and Donna Goldsmith
Chapter 30 Opportunities for Resident Training with Rapid Response Systems
Geoffrey K. Lighthall
Chapter 31 Optimizing RRSs Through Simulation
Melinda Fiedor Hamiltona, Elizabeth A. Hunt and Michael A. DeVita
Chapter 32 Evaluating Effectiveness of Complex System Interventions
Jack Chen
Chapter 33 Rapid Response Systems: Education for Ward Staff Caring for At-Risk and Deteriorating Patients
Gary B. Smith and John Welch
Chapter 34 Setting up a Standardized Process and Outcome Assessment Tool
Gabriella Jaderling and David Konrad
Chapter 35 The Impact of Rapid Response Systems on Not For Resuscitation (NFR) Orders
Arthas Flabouris and Jack Chen
