Intensive care unit admission in patients following rapid response team activation: call factors, patient characteristics and hospital outcomes

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
M P Le GuenD Reid

Abstract

Rapid Response Systems (RRSs) have been widely introduced throughout hospital health systems, yet there is limited research on the characteristics and outcomes of patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) following RRS activation. Using database extraction, this study examined the factors associated with ICU admission and patient outcome in patients receiving RRS activation in a tertiary level hospital between 2009 and 2013. Of 3004 RRS activations, 392 resulted in ICU admissions. Call factors associated with ICU admission and increased hospital mortality included tachypnoea (P <0.001 and P <0.001, respectively), hypoxia (P <0.001 and P <0.001, respectively) and having multiple Medical Emergency Team call triggers breached simultaneously (P <0.001 and P <0.001, respectively). Patients with seizures (P <0.001) and tachycardia (P=0.004) were more likely to survive to hospital discharge. Patient factors associated with ICU admission included young age (P <0.001) and having severe liver disease (P <0.001). Factors associated with increased hospital mortality included delayed RRS activation (P <0.001), increased age (P <0.001) and comorbidities including ischaemic heart disease (P=0.006), congestive heart failure (P <0.001),...Continue Reading

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