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Triage for Rapid Response Teams: Evidence-based Pearls and Pitfalls

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Rapid Response Teams (RRT) identify deteriorating hospitalized patients prospectively and seek to alter their clinical trajectory through increasing the clinical resources directed to them. As hospitalized patients may exhibit warning signs prior to deterioration, RRT have the potential to prevent adverse clinical outcomes, including cardiac arrest and death. 

Brought to widespread attention by the 2005 Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 100,000 Lives Campaign, the development of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) was in reaction to a growing body of evidence that revealed deficiencies in the response to rapid clinical decline in the inpatient setting.  A key principle underlying RRT is that early intervention can prevent avoidable morbidity and mortality in the non-intensive care hospital setting. 

Members of the RRT must possess skills in rapid and thorough patient assessment, positive team dynamics and correct triaging of all patients.  Inadequacies in any of these areas could result in rapid patient deterioration and patient demise.   

In this presentation, you will learn about the following: (1) the most effective physical assessment techniques to assess a patient; (2) proper planning and interventions for your patient’s condition; (3) treatment modalities for the most common causes of activating an RRT call; and (4) pitfalls to avoid when responding to an RRT call. 

Here's What You'll Learn

Rapid Response vs. Code Blue: What is the difference? 

  • Team members 
  • Team training 

Personal equipment you must take to every rapid response call 

  • Beyond the stethoscope and penlight 

The five-minute focused physical assessment 

  • Setting priorities and identifying patients at risk for decompensation 

Communication 

  • SBAR and CUS words (concern, uncomfortable and safety) 

Triage methods based on levels of care 

  • Is the patient stable or rapidly deteriorating? 

Evidence based criteria to transfer to higher level of care 

Team communication and feedback mechanisms 

  • Performance, attitude and knowledge sharing during the debriefing 

Case Studies 

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 2 hours of video content
  • Up to 2.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS

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Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, is a critical care clinical specialist in the surgical, medical, neurologic, burn, CCU, and trauma ICUs of Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Drawing on over 40 years of experience assessing and managing patients with life-threatening diseases, Dr. Langlois provides advanced-level training to nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, respiratory therapists, and physicians.

Dr. Langlois is committed to providing the highest quality of care to patients through advanced education. His presentations are evidence-based, timely, and go beyond content review to sharpen the clinical reasoning underneath it, using illness scripts, anticipatory thinking, and layered case studies to help experienced clinicians reason out loud rather than simply recall answers. As a bedside clinical nurse specialist, he has developed several institution-wide protocols for the multidisciplinary assessment and management of patients.

His presentations are enthusiastically delivered and offer highly practical tips that help make the most challenging concepts easy to understand, from cognitive-bias traps that shape a shift to the SBAR calibration that gets a "come now" call heard the first time. Linking knowledge to clinical practice is the goal of every educational program, and Dr. Langlois builds that link through near-miss scenarios and "what would you do?" cases designed to sharpen judgment, not just test it.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Paul Langlois has employment relationship with Cook County Hospital and Emergency Care Consultants. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Paul Langlois is a member of the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS078701
Duration:
2 hours, 5 minutes
Copyright:
Oct 19, 2023
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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