Patients' Instability, Emergency Response, and Outcomes in the Radiology Department | Zendy

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Patients' Instability, Emergency Response, and Outcomes in the Radiology Department

Author(s) -

Lora K. Ott,

Marilyn Hravnak,

Sunday Clark,

Nikhil B. Amesur

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

american journal of critical care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1937-710X

pISSN - 1062-3264

DOI - 10.4037/ajcc2011248

Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , emergency medicine , medical diagnosis , intensive care unit , rapid response team , intervention (counseling) , retrospective cohort study , pediatrics , radiology , psychiatry

Inpatients may be at risk of cardiopulmonary instability during radiologic testing. Calling the medical emergency team is one rescue intervention that brings a team of critical care providers to the unstable patient. Little is known, however, about patients' instability and activations of the medical emergency team in the radiology department (RD-MET).

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