Medical Emergency Teams

✍ Scribed by Michael A Devita; Ken Hillman; Rinaldo Bellomo

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover_Medical Emergency Tems.jpg......Page 1
front-matter.pdf......Page 2
01Measuring and Improving Safety.pdf......Page 18
02The Evolution of the Health Care System.pdf......Page 35
03Process Change in Health Care Institutions Top-Down or Bottom-Up.pdf......Page 41
04The Challenge of Predicting In-Hospital Iatrogenic Deaths.pdf......Page 49
05Overview of Hospital Medicine.pdf......Page 66
06Medical Trainees and Patient Safety.pdf......Page 72
07Matching Levels of Care with Levels of Illness.pdf......Page 80
08General Principles of Medical Emergency Teams.pdf......Page 97
09Potential Sociological and Political Barriers to Medical Emergency Team Implementation.pdf......Page 108
10Overview of Various Medical Emergency Team Models.pdf......Page 121
11Early Goal-Directed Therapy.pdf......Page 133
12Nurse-Led Medical Emergency Teams A Recipe for Success in Community Hospitals.pdf......Page 139
13ICU Without Walls A New York City Model.pdf......Page 151
14Hospital Size and Location and the Feasibility of the Medical Emergency Team.pdf......Page 162
15Medical Emergency Teams in Teaching Hospitals.pdf......Page 169
16The Nurse’s Perspective.pdf......Page 180
17The Hospital Administrator’s Perspective.pdf......Page 190
18Personnel Resources for Crisis Response.pdf......Page 201
19Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Medical Emergency Team Response.pdf......Page 216
20Resident Training and the Medical Emergency Team.pdf......Page 234
21Teaching Organized Crisis Team Functioning Using Human Simulators.pdf......Page 249
22Information Systems Considerations Integration of Medical Emergency Team Clinical Indicators.pdf......Page 263
23Evaluating Complex System Interventions in Patient Safety.pdf......Page 275
24Integrating MET into a Patient Safety Program.pdf......Page 289
25Are Medical Emergency Teams Worth the Cost.pdf......Page 298
back-matter.pdf......Page 305