Titlebook: Medical Emergency Teams; Implementation and O Michael A. DeVita (Associate Professor of Critical Book 2006 Springer-Verlag New York 2006 ME

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Nurse-Led Medical Emergency Teams: A Recipe for Success in Community Hospitals no physician is available to respond. Indeed, nursing brings a unique perspective to the leadership role in a MET process. Experience, instinct, determination, and a spirit of collaboration with the nurse at the bedside are attributes that can sustain a MET process and over time can change the environment of the facility.

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Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Medical Emergency Team Responseand replacement after a crisis, and finally the institution’s ability to revise medication and equipment resources for crises. We believe that improving efficiency and reliability can reduce delays and errors, and contribute to the primary goal of improving patient outcomes following a crisis event.

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s? In early 2004, when Dr. Michael DeVita informed me that he was cons- ering a textbook on the new concept of Medical Emergency Teams (METs), I was surprised. At Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh we int- duced this idea some 15 years ago, but did not think it was revolutionary enough t

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Matching Levels of Care with Levels of Illnessve this situation. These advances involve medical and surgical assessment units, hospitalists, consultants in acute care, early emergency department treatment, medical emergency and outreach teams, and better decisions about limitation of care and resuscitation.

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Measuring and Improving Safetyficant, and hospitals are learning how to accomplish this goal. METs are grounded in safety theory and offer the promise to reduce patient harm. We hope practical strategies such as those proposed here help move safety and quality efforts forward.

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Early Goal-Directed Therapym-based, or ICU-based. The team-based approach is similar to a MET and could be an extension of an already existing MET service. It may also be the most amenable to a fluid delivery of care from the emergency department to the intensive care unit. Other effective solutions may be dictated by local resources.