Textbook of Rapid Response Systems

Part I RRSs and Patient Safety
Chapter 1 Why Have a Rapid Response System? Cold with Fear: The Patient and Family Experience of Failure to RescueHelen Haskell
Chapter 2 Rapid Response Systems History and TerminologyBradford D. Winters and Michael DeVita
Chapter 3 RRS's General PrinciplesAjay D. Rao and Michael DeVita
Chapter 4 Measuring SafetyBradford D. Winters, Peter J. Pronovost, Marlene Miller, and Elizabeth A. Hunt
Chapter 5 Medical Trainees and Patient SafetySteve Lam, Arthas Flabouris
Chapter 6 RRS and the Culture of SafetyKen Hillman, Hadis Nosrati and Jeffrey Braithwaite
Chapter 7 Creating Process and Policy Change in Health CareStuart F. Reynolds and Bernard Lawless
Chapter 8 The Assessment and Interpretation of Vital SignsJohn Kellett 
Chapter 9 Multiple Parameter Track and Trigger SystemsJohn Asger Petersen
Chapter 10 Causes of Failure-To-RescueMarilyn Hravnak, Andrea Schmid-Mazzoccoli, Eliezer Bose, Michael R. Pinsky 
Chapter 11 Dying SafelyMagnolia Cardona-Morrell, Ken Hillman
Chapter 12 Rapid Response Systems: A Brief Review of the EvidenceBradford Winters
Chapter 13 Making the Business Case for a Rapid Response SystemShane C. Townsend 

Part II Creating an RRS
Chapter 14 Hospital size and Location and Feasibility of the Rapid Response SystemDaryl Jones and Rinaldo Bellomo 
Chapter 15 Barriers to the Implementation of RRSOluwaseun Davies, Michael A. DeVita, Ken Hillman
Chapter 16 An Overview of the Afferent LimbGary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Alex J. Psiridesd
Chapter 17 The Impact of Delayed Rapid Response System ActivationDaryl Jones, Christian Subbe, Rinaldo Bellomo
Chapter 18 Nurse-Led Rapid Response TeamsKathy D. Duncan, Terri Wells, Amy Pearson
Chapter 19 MET: Physician - led RRTs Daryl Jones and Rinaldo Bellomo 
Chapter 20 Pediatric RRSsChristopher P. Bonafide and Patrick W. Brady
Chapter 21 Rapid Response Systems and the Septic PatientPatrick Maluso, Babak Sarani
Chapter 22 Other

Michael A. DeVita, MD, FCCM, FRCPHarlem Hospital, Departments of Surgery and Internal Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Dr. Ken Hillman, AO, MBBS, FRCA, FCICM, FRCP, MDUniversity of New South Wales, Liverpool Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, Liverpool, NSW, Australia
Rinaldo Bellomo, MDAustin Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

Associate Editors
Dr. Mandy Odell, RN, PG dip, MSc, PhDRoyal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Critical Care, Reading, Berkshire, UK
Dr. Daryl A. Jones Austin Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Bradford D. Winters, MD, PhDThe Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Geoffrey K. Lighthall, MD, PhDStanford University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

"Textbook of Rapid Response Systems: Concepts and Implementation, Second Edition is a focused and concise update to the best evidence and expert opinion on the implementation and evaluation of the service. This book will serve as an accessible and effective reference guide for those clinicians and administrators wanting to fine-tune their existing RRSs as well as for those health systems contemplating starting the service." (Ritesh Maharaj, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 126 (6), June, 2018)

"This is the second edition of a multiauthored book describing the theory and organization of teams designed to identify patients developing critical illness outside the intensive care unit. ... Clinical leadership in hospitals considering or featuring a Rapid Response System are an appropriate audience for this work, along with their administrative partners. ... This update reflects studies in literature produced since the first edition was published in 2011." (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2017)