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The Afferent Limb of Rapid Response Systems: Continuous Monitoring on General Care Units.
Critical Care Clinics 2018 April
The prevention of adverse events continues to be the focus of patient safety work. Although rapid response systems have improved the efferent limb of the patient's rescue, the detection of the patient's deterioration (the afferent limb) has not been solved. This article provides an overview of the complex issues surrounding patient surveillance by addressing the principal considerations of continuous monitoring as they relate to implementation, choice of sensors and physiologic variables, notification, and alarm balancing, as well as future research opportunities.
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