Rapid Response Teams—Walk, Don't Run

Implications of long-term low-fidelity in situ simulation in acute care and association with a reduction in unexpected cardiac arrests: A retrospective research study

“…Our results showed regular ISS in an acute care ward to have a significant impact on the rate of unexpected cardiac arrest, which is in line with the findings of previous studies on patient outcomes and a few studies that revealed how simulation-based CRM training and caregiver education can improve patient outcomes [1, 3, 5]. Identifying acute physiological deteriorations in acutely ill patients and calling for help can reduce the cardiac arrest rate [32].…”

The Impact of Rapid Response Team on Outcome of Patients Transferred From the Ward to the ICU

“…Previous studies examining the role of RRT focused on the cardiac arrest and hospital mortality rates as the main outcome measures. This finding is similar to most of the other studies, including a multicenter randomized trial (4,6,9) Severity of Illness In our study, the severity of illness (measured by APS, APACHE III score, and APACHE III predicted mortality) was lower during the RRT period in both the ward and the nonward transfer patients. Of the two clinical trials with prospective components, RRT was associated with decreased mortality in the study by Priestley et al (8), but not in the study by Hillman et al (9).…”

Errors in after-hours phone consultations: a simulation study

“…Simple interventions, such as problem-specific templates for communicating patient data, may reduce communication failures 2. Our results show, however, that such interventions are not effective in isolation 5 26. It seems that improving communication is necessary, but not sufficient to improve outcomes.…”