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9780387279206

Medical Emergency Teams

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  • ISBN13:

    9780387279206

  • ISBN10:

    0387279202

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-12-01
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag

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Summary

Written by the world's leading innovators in the development of medical emergency teams, this book provides the necessary framework for healthcare professionals and administrators who want to incorporate this concept into their own patient safety and quality improvement programs. Topics covered include controversies and challenges in patient safety, description of various MET models, guidelines for implementing a successful program, and instruction on how to measure outcomes.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Ake Grenvik
Preface ix
Contributors xvii
SECTION ONE METS AND PATIENT SAFETY
Measuring and Improving Safety
1(17)
Peter J. Pronovost
Marlene Miller
Brad Winters
Elizabeth A. Hunt
The Evolution of the Health Care System
18(6)
Kenneth Hillman
Jack Chen
Lis Young
Process Change in Health Care Institutions: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
24(8)
Lakshmipathi Chelluri
The Challenge of Predicting In-Hospital Iatrogenic Deaths
32(17)
Michael Buist
Donald Campbell
Overview of Hospital Medicine
49(6)
David J. McAdams
Medical Trainees and Patient Safety
55(8)
Stephen W. Lam
Arthas Flabouris
Matching Levels of Care with Levels of Illness
63(17)
Gary B. Smith
Juliane Kause
SECTION TWO CREATING A METS SYSTEM
General Principles of Medical Emergency Teams
80(11)
Daryl Jones
Rinaldo Bellomo
Donna Goldsmith
Potential Sociological and Political Barriers to Medical Emergency Team Implementation
91(13)
Michael A. DeVita
Kenneth Hillman
Overview of Various Medical Emergency Team Models
104(12)
Michelle Cretikos
Rinaldo Bellomo
Early Goal-Directed Therapy
116(6)
David T. Huang
Scott R. Gunn
Emanuel P. Rivers
Nurse-Led Medical Emergency Teams: A Recipe for Success in Community Hospitals
122(12)
Kathy D. Duncan
ICU Without Walls: A New York City Model
134(11)
Vladimir Kvetan
Brian Currie
Hospital Size and Location and the Feasibility of the Medical Emergency Team
145(7)
Daryl Jones
Rinaldo Bellomo
Medical Emegency Teams in Teaching Hospitals
152(11)
Helen Ingrid Opdam
The Nurse's Perspective
163(10)
Nicolette C. Mininni
Carole C. Scholle
The Hospital Administrator's Perspective
173(11)
Craig White
Rinaldo Bellomo
Personnel Resources for Crisis Response
184(15)
Andrew W. Murray
Michael A. DeVita
John J. Schaefer III
Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Medical Emergency Team Response
199(18)
Edgar Delgado
Wendeline J. Grbach
Joanne Kowiatek
Michael A. DeVita
SECTION THREE MEASURING OUTCOMES
Resident Training and the Medical Emergency Team
217(15)
Geoffrey K. Lighthall
Teaching Organized Crisis Team Functioning Using Human Simulators
232(14)
Melinda Fiedor
Elizabeth A. Hunt
Michael A. DeVita
Information Systems Considerations: Integration of Medical Emergency Team Clinical Indicators
246(12)
Lis Young
Jack Chen
Kenneth Hillman
Evaluating Complex System Interventions in Patient Safety
258(14)
Jack Chen
Lis Young
Kenneth Hillman
Integrating MET into a Patient Safety Program
272(9)
John Gosbee
Are Medical Emergency Teams Worth the Cost?
281(8)
Daniel Brown
Rinaldo Bellomo
Index 289

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