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PEDIATRIC PATIENT DURING EMERGENCY MEDICAL TEAM INTERVENTION
Emergency Medical Service, 2022Aim: Analysis of Emergency Medical Teams’ responses to patients below 18 years of age in operational region of Kato¬wice Emergency Service between January 1st, 2014 and December 31st, 2017. Material and methods: Retrospective analysis of medical documentation issued by the dispatcher and by the P and S type EMS teams of Katowice Emergency Service ...
Michał Kucap +4 more
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Medications and Medical Emergency Teams
2021This thesis explores the relationships between medications and Medical Emergency Teams. Medications treat and prevent disease but can cause harm. Medical Emergency Teams are specialist doctors and nurses called to review and treat patients who become more unwell during their hospital stay to prevent cardiac arrest or death.
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Medical Emergency and Rapid Response Teams
Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2008Hospitals that care for children are establishing medical emergency or rapid response teams as system solutions for preventing unexpected but foreseeable respiratory and cardiac arrest on inpatient units. Typically, an experienced team of doctors and nurses responds quickly to a direct request by any level of staff or even a parent for assistance with ...
James, Tibballs, Elise W, van der Jagt
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Ugeskrift for laeger, 2008
The aim of medical emergency teams (MET) is to identify and treat deteriorating patients on general wards, and to avoid cardiac arrest, unplanned intensive care unit admission and death. The effectiveness of METs has yet to be proven, as the only two randomised, controlled trials on the subject show conflicting results.
Bunkenborg, G. +2 more
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The aim of medical emergency teams (MET) is to identify and treat deteriorating patients on general wards, and to avoid cardiac arrest, unplanned intensive care unit admission and death. The effectiveness of METs has yet to be proven, as the only two randomised, controlled trials on the subject show conflicting results.
Bunkenborg, G. +2 more
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Delayed Medical Emergency Team Calls and Associated Outcomes*
Critical Care Medicine, 2014To determine whether there was an association between delayed medical emergency team calls and mortality after a medical emergency team review.This was a prospective observational study.A university-affiliated tertiary referral hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil.All patients were reviewed by the medical emergency team from July 2008 to December 2009.None.
Márcio M, Boniatti +9 more
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[In-hospital medical emergency teams].
Anestezjologia intensywna terapia, 2009A growing number of very sick and hospital-dependent patients in an ageing population, together with a chronic lack of intensive care beds, has resulted in a significant impairment in hospital care. Acute, life-threatening symptoms are frequently missed, leading to increased mortality and morbidity.
Waldemar, Goździk +2 more
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Usefulness of Emergency Medical Teams in Sport Stadiums
The American Journal of Cardiology, 2008In August 2006, the new AZ Alkmaar soccer stadium (capacity 17,000) opened. To provide adequate emergency support, medical teams of Red Cross volunteers and coronary care unit and emergency room nurses were formed, and facilities including automated external defibrillators were made available at the stadium. During every match, 3 teams are placed among
E, Leusveld, S, Kleijn, V A W M, Umans
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General Principles of Medical Emergency Teams
2006The theory behind the MET system and the principle that early intervention improves outcome is intuitive. It is considerably easier to resuscitate a patient who is alive rather than one who is dead. Successful implementation of a MET system relies on support from hospital administrators and participation of staff members at all levels and of all ...
Daryl Jones +2 more
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Medical emergency team: a review of the literature
Nursing in Critical Care, 2008AbstractBackground: A medical emergency team (MET) comprises of a team of doctors and nurses with advanced life support skills, which are hospital based, who respond to emergency calls following a deterioration in a patient’s clinical condition. The role and contribution of such approaches promoting the early recognition and intervention of these ...
Barbetti, Julie, Lee, Gerry
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