Prognostic value of the calling criteria in patients receiving a medical emergency team review

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 667-670

  Boniatti, Márcio Manozzo ^a   Azzolini, Neusa ^a   da Fonseca, Deisi Letícia Oliveira ^a   Ribeiro, Berenice Severino Pinto ^a   de Oliveira, Vanessa Martins ^a   Castilho, Rodrigo Kappel ^a   Raymundi, Marcelo Gregório ^a   Coelho, Renata Souza ^a   Filho, Edison Moraes Rodrigues ^a,b  

^a Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre ^*  (Brazil)

^b Critical Care Department   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Critical care; Intensive care unit; Medical emergency team; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WARD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77952892321     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.01.025     Document Type: Article

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