A rapid response system (RRS) is a system implemented in many hospitals designed to identify and respond to patients with early signs of clinical deterioration on non-intensive care units with the goal of preventing respiratory or cardiac arrest.[1] A rapid response system consists of two clinical components, an afferent component, an efferent component, and two organizational components – process improvement and administrative.[2]
The afferent component consists of identifying the input early warning signs that alert a response from the efferent component, the rapid response team.[3] Rapid response teams are those specific to the US, the equivalent in the UK are called critical care outreach teams, and in Australia are known as medical emergency teams, though the term rapid response teams is often used as a generic term.[4] In the rapid response system of a hospital's pediatric wards a prequel to the rapid response team known as a rover team is sometimes used that continuously monitors the children in its care.[5]
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