Rescue Me: Saving the Vulnerable Non-ICU Patient Population

摘要

This RRT initiative demonstrated the ability of a community hospital to garner the necessary resources from an existing infrastructure and staff to create a 24-hour/7-day-a-week RRT program. The quantitative data on number of monthly calls, unanticipated transfers to the ICU, and incidence of non-ICU arrests confirmed the validity of the program. Perhaps the most valuable outcome of the RRT implementation was the identification of clinical and system issues.