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