Prediction of Patient Deterioration on the General Care Floor: Making the Connection with ICU Admissions & Resource Utilization – A Special Series on Perioperative Patient Safety
A late-night code blue alarm ringing through a hospital’s hallways is not new to our ears. We as anesthesiologists and intensivists have been ‘first responders’ to these adverse events and also ‘first receivers’ of these patients in the ICU. This ‘4am’ patient deterioration phenomenon may be a simple lack of appropriate surveillance systems or maybe a more complex interplay of underlying patient physiology and concurrent disease insults.
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