Efficacy of a rapid response team on reducing the incidence and mortality of unexpected cardiac arrests

Trauma Monthly

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 270-274

  Sabahi, Majid ^a,b   Fanaei, Seyed Ahmad ^c   Ziaee, Seyed Ali ^d   Falsafi, Farokh Sadat ^b  

^a CA ATLS Instructor by American College of Surgeons   (Canada)

^b Atieh Hospital Tehran   (Iran)

^c BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d Emergency Department of Saudi German Hospital   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Hospital; Hospital rapid response team

Indexed keywords

INFUSION FLUID;

ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DISEASE CONTROL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG CONGESTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESTLESSNESS; RESUSCITATION; RISK REDUCTION; STAFF NURSE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHEEZING;

EID: 84866538769     PISSN: 22517464     EISSN: 22517472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/traumamon.4170     Document Type: Article

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