Implementation of Rapid Response Team Plan Name Institution of Affiliation Instructor Date Implementation of Rapid Response Team Plan Mortality has risen due to the lack of the rapid response team in many of the health care centers. To cut down the high rate of immature deaths being observed within the health care center a rapid response team for each health care should be implemented. From the limited healthcare centers who have been able to implement the rapid response team, they have been able to observe the benefits associated with it. Scientific research shows that rapid response team has greatly changed those care centers. The findings show that with the rapid response team there has been a 50% reduction in the occurrence of cardiac arrests outside the ICU (Buist, 2002). There has also been 17% decrease in the cardiopulmonary arrests (DeVita, 2004). There has also been a decrease in the number of the patients who are admitted to the ICU by 44%, and the severe postoperative adverse events have reduced by 58%. The deaths which occur after operations has also gone down by 37%. This means that the days for the surgical patients to stay in the hospital have reduced from 23.8 days to 19.8 days (Bellomo, 2004). Moreover, there has been a decrease in the unnecessary transfers to the higher levels of care by an approximate of 30% (Goldhill, 1999). From the above statistics, it is clear that if we implement the rapid response team in our health care, the
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