Hi Linda, We are a small community hospital (150 beds); however we do have a Rapid Response Team that falls under the supervision of the ICU Director. The RRT member is usually an ICU nurse and when an event is activated, a respiratory therapist also responds. We don't have a physician member because there are not physicians on the premises 24 hours a day and the ED physicians have plenty on their plate as it is. The team has standardized procedures for several conditions. We don't call a "Code Sepsis" but the team is activated for positive sepsis screens in the Inpatient units where an assessment is performed and initial lactate and blood cultures are obtained.
As of last year, detailed review is performed on all rapid response events to determine what kind of events are being called (activation triggers) and what interventions are administered. We also track time of activation and arrival, the location of the patient 24 hours prior to event, if there are multiple events, if patients are transferred to a higher level of care, and outcome. We are finding some patients who may not have been admitted to the appropriate level of care from the ED. I attached a copy of our review tool. The codes are just how I enter the data in our data base. Hope that helps. Regards, Anne Engleman RN, MSN Quality Manager Quality Management Department JFK Memorial Hospital 47-111 Monroe Street Indio, CA 92201 Phone: (760) 775-8086 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> This email and any attached files may contain Privileged or Confidential information and may be read or used only by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of the email or its attachments, please be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, printing or copying of this email or any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately purge it and all attachments and notify the sender.
Rapid Response Detailed Review Tool.docx
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