Rapid response systems: are they really effective?

Claudio Sandroni; Sonia D'Arrigo; Massimo Antonelli

doi:10.1186/s13054-015-0807-y

Rapid response systems: are they really effective?

Crit Care. 2015 Mar 16;19(1):104. doi: 10.1186/s13054-015-0807-y.

Authors

Claudio Sandroni¹, Sonia D'Arrigo², Massimo Antonelli³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy. sandroni@rm.unicatt.it.
² Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy. sonia.darrigo@virgilio.it.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy. m.antonelli@rm.unicatt.it.

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2015. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Critical Care / organization & administration*
Critical Care / standards
Emergency Medicine / methods*
Heart Arrest / epidemiology
Heart Arrest / therapy*
Hospital Mortality
Humans