Medical Emergency Teams
A Guide to Implementation and Outcome Measurement
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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 it was revolutionary enough to publish. This, even though, our fellows in critical care medicine training were all involved and informed about the importance of "C- dition C (Crisis)," as it was called to distinguish it from "Condition A (Arrest). "We thought it absurd to intervene only after cardiac arrest had occurred,because most cases showed prior deterioration and cardiac arrest could be prevented with rapid team work to correct precluding problems. The above thoughts were logical in Pittsburgh, where the legendary Dr. Peter Safar had been working since the late 1950s on improving current resuscitation techniques, ?rst ventilation victims of apneic from drowning, treatment of smoke inhalation, and so on. This was followed by external cardiac compression upon demonstration of its ef?ciency in cases of unexpected sudden cardiac arrest. Dr. Safar devoted his entire professional life to improvement of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He and many others emphasized the importance of getting the CPR team to o- of-hospital victims of cardiac arrest as quickly as possible.
- Hospital patient safety
- Patient safety: top-down or bottom-up?
- Why the current system fails
- Quality of critical care before ICU admission
- Changing nature of modern hospitals
- Acute medicine as a specialty
- Potential impact of trainees on outcome
- Matching level of illness with level of care
- The MET system: what is a MET?
- MET-type systems
- Critical care outreach teams
- Designing patient safety into graduate medical education
- Hospital size & location and MET feasibility
- METs as a QI tool: finding and correcting errors that matter
- Nursing perspectives
- General principles of implementing METs
- Organizational issues
- Equipment
- Personnel
- Overcoming political hurdles
- Obtaining financial support
- METs in teaching hospitals
- Teaching organized crisis teams using human simulators
- Pediatric METs
- Principles of evaluating systems
- Outcome and process measurements/metrics
- Return on investment: are METs worth the cost?
- Patient safety: top-down or bottom-up?
- Why the current system fails
- Quality of critical care before ICU admission
- Changing nature of modern hospitals
- Acute medicine as a specialty
- Potential impact of trainees on outcome
- Matching level of illness with level of care
- The MET system: what is a MET?
- MET-type systems
- Critical care outreach teams
- Designing patient safety into graduate medical education
- Hospital size & location and MET feasibility
- METs as a QI tool: finding and correcting errors that matter
- Nursing perspectives
- General principles of implementing METs
- Organizational issues
- Equipment
- Personnel
- Overcoming political hurdles
- Obtaining financial support
- METs in teaching hospitals
- Teaching organized crisis teams using human simulators
- Pediatric METs
- Principles of evaluating systems
- Outcome and process measurements/metrics
- Return on investment: are METs worth the cost?
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Medical Emergency Teams “
- Hospital patient safety- Patient safety: top-down or bottom-up?
- Why the current system fails
- Quality of critical care before ICU admission
- Changing nature of modern hospitals
- Acute medicine as a specialty
- Potential impact of trainees on outcome
- Matching level of illness with level of care
- The MET system: what is a MET?
- MET-type systems
- Critical care outreach teams
- Designing patient safety into graduate medical education
- Hospital size & location and MET feasibility
- METs as a QI tool: finding and correcting errors that matter
- Nursing perspectives
- General principles of implementing METs
- Organizational issues
- Equipment
- Personnel
- Overcoming political hurdles
- Obtaining financial support
- METs in teaching hospitals
- Teaching organized crisis teams using human simulators
- Pediatric METs
- Principles of evaluating systems
- Outcome and process measurements/metrics
- Return on investment: are METs worth the cost?
Autoren-Porträt
Medical Emergency Teams: Implementation and Outcome Measurement addresses the problem of patient safety and quality of care; the logistics of creating a MET (resource allocation, process design, workflow, and training); the implementation of a MET (organizational issues, challenges); and the evaluation of program results. Based on successful MET models that have resulted in reduced in-hospital cardiac arrest and overall hospital death rates, this book is the first practical guide for physicians, hospital administrators, and other healthcare professionals who wish to initiate a MET program within their own institutions.Bibliographische Angaben
- 2005, 296 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Michael A. DeVita, Ken Hillman, Rinaldo Bellomo
- Verlag: Springer, New York
- ISBN-10: 0387279202
- ISBN-13: 9780387279206
Sprache:
Englisch
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