Medical Emergency Teams Implementation and Outcome Measurement /

Why Critical Care Evolved METs? In early 2004, when Dr. Michael DeVita informed me that he was cons- ering a textbook on the new concept of Medical Emergency Teams (METs), I was surprised. At Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh we int- duced this idea some 15 years ago, but did not think...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: DeVita, Michael A. (Editor ), Hillman, Ken (Editor ), Bellomo, Rinaldo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Temas:
Critical care medicine.
Emergency medical services.
Emergency medicine.
Anesthesiology.
Intensive Care Medicine.
Emergency Services.
Emergency Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mets and Patient Safety
  • Measuring and Improving Safety
  • The Evolution of the Health Care System
  • Process Change in Health Care Institutions: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
  • The Challenge of Predicting In-Hospital Iatrogenic Deaths
  • Overview of Hospital Medicine
  • Medical Trainees and Patient Safety
  • Matching Levels of Care with Levels of Illness
  • Creating a Mets System
  • General Principles of Medical Emergency Teams
  • Potential Sociological and Political Barriers to Medical Emergency Team Implementation
  • Overview of Various Medical Emergency Team Models
  • Early Goal-Directed Therapy
  • Nurse-Led Medical Emergency Teams: A Recipe for Success in Community Hospitals
  • ICU Without Walls: A New York City Model
  • Hospital Size and Location and the Feasibility of the Medical Emergency Team
  • Medical Emergency Teams in Teaching Hospitals
  • The Nurse's Perspective
  • The Hospital Administrator's Perspective
  • Personnel Resources for Crisis Response
  • Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Medical Emergency Team Response
  • Measuring Outcomes
  • Resident Training and the Medical Emergency Team
  • Teaching Organized Crisis Team Functioning Using Human Simulators
  • Information Systems Considerations: Integration of Medical Emergency Team Clinical Indicators
  • Evaluating Complex System Interventions in Patient Safety
  • Integrating MET into a Patient Safety Program
  • Are Medical Emergency Teams Worth the Cost?.

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