A Comprehensive Guide to Rapid Response Systems in Healthcare

A Practical Guide for Healthcare Professionals

Rapid Response System: A Practical Guide offers a practical approach to the evaluation, differential diagnosis, and management of common medical and surgical emergencies. This guide is designed for healthcare professionals, including medical students, junior physicians, and nursing staff working in both academic and community hospital settings.

Common Emergencies and Special Circumstances

The guide covers common emergencies such as cardiac arrest, acute respiratory failure, seizures, and hemorrhagic shock. It also addresses less common and special circumstances, including pediatric, obstetric, oncologic, neurologic, and behavioral emergencies, as well as palliative care for terminally ill patients.

Bedside Emergency Procedures

Additionally, the guide provides an overview of commonly performed bedside emergency procedures by rapid response team members. This includes essential information on the clinical resources that may need to be brought to bear during the course of the rapid response team event.

Organization, Leadership, and Quality Improvement

Rapid Response System: A Practical Guide also covers the organization, leadership, communication, quality, and patient safety surrounding rapid response team events. This section is particularly valuable for hospital administrators and senior management staff who are looking to evaluate the quality and performance of the rapid response system, manage staff attitudes and behavior, perform peer review, care for second victims, and implement countermeasures for patient safety problems discovered in the course of rapid response system reviews.

Key Features:

• Provides practical guidance on the evaluation, differential diagnosis, and management of common medical and surgical emergencies
• Covers less common and special circumstances such as pediatric, obstetric, oncologic, neurologic, and behavioral emergencies, as well as palliative care for terminally ill patients
• Offers an overview of commonly performed bedside emergency procedures by rapid response team members
• Discusses the organization, leadership, communication, quality, and patient safety surrounding rapid response team events
• Written for medical students, junior physicians, and nursing staff in both academic and community hospital settings
• Useful for hospital administrators and senior management staff in evaluating the quality and performance of the rapid response system

Publication Details:

Rapid Response System: A Practical Guide is published by Oxford University Press and is available in paperback format. It consists of 368 pages and was published on April 25, 2018. The ISBN-10 is 0190612479, and the ISBN-13 is 978-0190612474. The product dimensions are 7.9 x 1.1 x 5 inches.