Why Have a Rapid Response System? Cold with Fear: The Patient and Family Experience of Failure to Rescue -- Rapid Response Systems History and Terminology -- RRS's General Principles -- Measuring Safety -- Medical Trainees and Patient Safety -- RRS and the Culture of Safety -- Creating Process and Policy Change in Health Care -- The Assessment and Interpretation of Vital Signs -- Multiple Parameter Track and Trigger Systems -- Causes of Failure-To-Rescue -- Dying Safely -- Rapid Response Systems: A Brief Review of the Evidence -- Making the Business Case for a Rapid Response System -- Hospital size and Location and Feasibility of the Rapid Response System -- Barriers to the Implementation of RRS -- An Overview of the Afferent Limb -- The Impact of Delayed Rapid Response System Activation -- Nurse-Led Rapid Response Teams -- MET: Physician - led RRTs -- Pediatric RRSs -- Rapid Response Systems and the Septic Patient -- Other Efferent Limb Teams: Crises that Require Specialized Resources -- Crisis Teams for Obstetric Patients -- Personnel Resources for Responding Teams -- Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Rapid Response Team -- Governance of the Rapid Response System -- The Second Victim -- Rapid Response Teams in Teaching Hospitals -- The Nurse's View of RRS -- Opportunities for Resident Training with Rapid Response Systems -- Optimizing RRSs Through Simulation -- Evaluating Effectiveness of Complex System Interventions -- Rapid Response Systems: Education for Ward Staff Caring for At-Risk and Deteriorating Patients -- Setting up a Standardized Process and Outcome Assessment Tool -- The Impact of Rapid Response Systems on Not For Resuscitation (NFR) Orders.

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