Characteristics of Rapid Response Calls in the United States: An Analysis of the First 402,023 Adult Cases From the Get With the Guidelines Resuscitation-Medical Emergency Team Registry.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize the rapid response team activations, and the patients receiving them, in the American Heart Association-sponsored Get With The Guidelines Resuscitation-Medical Emergency Team cohort between 2005 and 2015.

Design

Retrospective multicenter cohort study.

Setting

Three hundred sixty U.S. hospitals.

Patients

Consecutive adult patients experiencing rapid response team activation.

Interventions

Rapid response team activation.

Measurements and main results

The cohort included 402,023 rapid response team activations from 347,401 unique healthcare encounters. Respiratory triggers (38.0%) and cardiac triggers (37.4%) were most common. The most frequent interventions-pulse oximetry (66.5%), other monitoring (59.6%), and supplemental

SUBMITTER: Lyons PG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7189351 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature