Connecticut medicine
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Connecticut medicine · Jan 2015
Reduction of Cardiac Arrests: The Experience of a Novel Service Centric Medical Emergency Team.
To determine whether a novel, service-centric, medical emergency team (MET) model can impact cardiac arrest (CA) rates. ⋯ A service-centric MET program was associated with a reduction in the rate of CAs both hospital wide and in the ICU. These observations maybe explained by the earlier intervention in care of unstable patients by an expanded group of caregivers.