A children’s hospital in California added a rapid response team (RRT) with experts available 24x7 for hospitalised patients who were not in the intensive care unit. After the implementation of the intervention, there was significant decrease in death and cardiopulmonary arrest rates, according to a new study published in the November 21 issue of JAMA.
However, in an accompanying editorial, the authors said that rigorous and comparable data will need to be collected to determine the best approach for RRTs in pediatrics.
Source: "Effect of a Rapid Response Team on Hospital-wide Mortality and Code Rates Outside the ICU in a Children’s Hospital" JAMA. 2007;298(19):2267-2274 (free full text article)
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