Medical Emergency Teams

Measuring and Improving Safety....Pages 1-17
The Evolution of the Health Care System....Pages 18-23
Process Change in Health Care Institutions: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?....Pages 24-31
The Challenge of Predicting In-Hospital Iatrogenic Deaths....Pages 32-48
Overview of Hospital Medicine....Pages 49-54
Medical Trainees and Patient Safety....Pages 55-62
Matching Levels of Care with Levels of Illness....Pages 63-79
General Principles of Medical Emergency Teams....Pages 80-90
Potential Sociological and Political Barriers to Medical Emergency Team Implementation....Pages 91-103
Overview of Various Medical Emergency Team Models....Pages 104-115
Early Goal-Directed Therapy....Pages 116-121
Nurse-Led Medical Emergency Teams: A Recipe for Success in Community Hospitals....Pages 122-133
ICU Without Walls: A New York City Model....Pages 134-144
Hospital Size and Location and the Feasibility of the Medical Emergency Team....Pages 145-151
Medical Emergency Teams in Teaching Hospitals....Pages 152-162
The Nurse’s Perspective....Pages 163-172
The Hospital Administrator’s Perspective....Pages 173-183
Personnel Resources for Crisis Response....Pages 184-198
Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Medical Emergency Team Response....Pages 199-216
Resident Training and the Medical Emergency Team....Pages 217-231
Teaching Organized Crisis Team Functioning Using Human Simulators....Pages 232-245
Information Systems Considerations: Integration of Medical Emergency Team Clinical Indicators....Pages 246-257
Evaluating Complex System Interventions in Patient Safety....Pages 258-271
Integrating MET into a Patient Safety Program....Pages 272-280
Are Medical Emergency Teams Worth the Cost?....Pages 281-287