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Other Efferent Limb Teams: Crises that Require Specialized Resources

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This chapter describes how medical emergency teams or rapid response teams bring the critical care team to the bedside of decompensating patients. The teams at UPMC started with a single response team but grew to bring specific teams with specific personnel to critical situations. These specific teams are discussed in the chapter. Lastly, the team membership of a crisis team is depicted in a chart on Table 22.1.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Fairfield Drive, Seneca, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Dan Shearn RN, MSN

  2. Department of Surgery, Intensive Care Unit Charing Cross Hospital, Bariatric Anaesthesia St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London, NHS Trust London, London, UK

    Francesca Rubulotta MD, PhD, FRCA, FFICM, eMBA

  3. Department of Surgery, Critical Care, Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY, 10037, USA

    Michael A. DeVita MD, FCCM, FRCP

  4. Department of Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY, 10037, USA

    Michael A. DeVita MD, FCCM, FRCP

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Correspondence to Dan Shearn RN, MSN .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery, Critical Care, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, New York, USA

    Michael A. DeVita

  2. The Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research and Intensive Care, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool BC, New South Wales, Australia

    Ken Hillman

  3. Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

    Rinaldo Bellomo

  4. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

    Mandy Odell

  5. Intensive Care Unit, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

    Daryl A. Jones

  6. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Bradford D. Winters

  7. Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA

    Geoffrey K. Lighthall

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Shearn, D., Rubulotta, F., DeVita, M.A. (2017). Other Efferent Limb Teams: Crises that Require Specialized Resources. In: DeVita, M., et al. Textbook of Rapid Response Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39391-9_21

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