How emergency department nurses identify and respond to critical illness
Emma Tippins Senior sister in professional development, Emergency department, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
EMMA TIPPINS suggests that emergency department nurses are better at recognising the signs of critical illness than responding to them
Research suggests that many critically ill patients have cardiac arrest because of inadequate initial assessment and subsequent non-recognition of patient deterioration (Fieselmann 1993, Franklin and Matthew 1994, National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death 2005, Schein 1999, Subbe et al 2001).
Emergency Nurse.
13, 3, 24-33.
doi: 10.7748/en2005.06.13.3.24.c1048
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