Surgical Rescue in Medical Patients: The Role of Acute Care Surgeons as the Surgical Rapid Response Team

Critical Care Clinics
Alexandra Briggs, Andrew B Peitzman

Abstract

Failure to rescue is death occurring after a complication. Rapid response teams developed as a prompt intervention for patients with early clinical deterioration, generally from medical conditions or complications. Patients with surgical complications or surgical pathology require prompt evaluation and management by surgeons to avoid deterioration; this is surgical rescue. Patients in the medical intensive care unit may develop intra-abdominal pathology that requires expeditious operative intervention. Acute care surgeons should serve as the surgical rapid response team to help assess and manage these complex patients. Collaboration between intensivists and surgeons is essential to rescue patients from complications and surgical disease.

Citations

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Jun 25, 2019·The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery·Alexandra BriggsRaquel M Forsythe
Oct 1, 2019·Current Opinion in Critical Care·Marc LafonteMatthew E Lissauer
Mar 14, 2019·International Anesthesiology Clinics·Mark E Nunnally, Michael Nurok
Mar 20, 2021·Journal of Visceral Surgery·K SlimR Amalberti

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