Rapid Response Systems/Fluid Resuscitation, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics, Volume 34-2

This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Rapid Response Systems and Fluid Resuscitation, with topics including: RRS Now; Triggering Criteria: Big Data; Triggering Criteria: Continuous Monitoring; Measuring instability; Surgery/Trauma RRT; Obstetric RRT; Difficult airway rapid response teams; and Sepsis rapid response teams.

·  Section I: Rapid Response Systems Edited By: Michael A.

DeVita

·  Preface

·  The Afferent Limb of Rapid Response Systems: Continuous Monitoring on General Care Units

·  Key points

·  Introduction

·  Continuous monitoring

·  Alarm management

·  Discussion

·  Trigger Criteria: Big Data

·  Key points

·  Introduction

·  Big data in the hospital wards

·  Big data, event prediction, and event detection

·  Medical emergency teams and risk stratification of hospitalized patients

·  Summary

·  Surgical Rescue in Medical Patients: The Role of Acute Care Surgeons as the Surgical Rapid Response Team

·  Key points

·  Introduction

·  Failure to rescue: principles and applications to the medical population

·  Surgical rescue in medical patients

·  Surgical pathology in medical patients

·  A partnership for rescue

·  Crisis Teams for Obstetric Patients

·  Key points

·  Background and justification

·  Design and introduction

·  Usage of Condition O at Magee-Women’s Hospital and discussion

·  Summary

·  A Decade of Difficult Airway Response Team: Lessons Learned from a Hospital-Wide Difficult Airway Response Team Program

·  Key points

·  Introduction

·  Difficult Airway Response Team program: goals and design

·  Difficult Airway Response Team program: results

·  Lessons learned

·  Discussion

·  Sepsis Rapid Response Teams

·  Key points

·  Background

·  Sepsis rapid response teams: what are they?

how are they different from other rapid response teams?

·  Outcomes after implementation of sepsis rapid response team/medical emergency team

·  The use of clinical assessment tools

·  Barriers in health care

·  Intensivist Presence at Code Events Is Associated with High Survival and Increased Documentation Rates

·  Key points

·  Introduction

·  Process

·  Results

·  Discussion

·  Summary

·  Section II: Fluid Resuscitation Edited By: Andrew D.

Shaw and Sean M.

Bagshaw

·  Preface

·  Applied Physiology of Fluid Resuscitation in Critical Illness

·  Key points

·  Introduction

·  Cardiovascular physiology 101

·  Fluids

·  Crystalloids

·  Colloids

·  Summary

·  Does Fluid Type and Amount Affect Kidney Function in Critical Illness?

·  Key points

·  Introduction

·  Measuring renal dysfunction in critical illness

·  How useful is urine output?

·  Are fluids a required component of renal resuscitation?

·  Mechanisms of renal injury related to type of fluid

·  Sodium, chloride, and balanced solutions

·  Albumin solutions

·  Hydroxyethyl starch

·  Gelatin solutions

·  Summary

·  Blood Product Administration in the Critical Care and Perioperative Settings

·  Key points

·  Introduction

·  Overview of the critical care setting

·  Overview of the perioperative setting

·  Management in critical illness

·  Perioperative management

·  Perspective