Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Circadian pattern of activation of the medical emergency team in a teaching hospital. | Available online http content 9 4 R303 Research Circadian pattern of activation of the medical emergency team in a teaching hospital Daryl Jones1 Samantha Bates2 Stephen Warrillow3 Helen Opdam3 Donna Goldsmith2 Geoff Gutteridge2 and Rinaldo Bellomo3 intensive Care Registrar. Department of Intensive Care and Department of Surgery Melbourne University Austin Hospital Melbourne Australia 2Research Nurse. Department of Intensive Care and Department of Surgery Melbourne University Austin Hospital Melbourne Australia intensive Care Consultant. Department of Intensive Care and Department of Surgery Melbourne University Austin Hospital Melbourne Australia Corresponding author Rinaldo Bellomo Received 11 Feb 2005 Revisions requested 16 Mar 2005 Revisions received 28 Mar 2005 Accepted 8 Apr 2005 Published 28 Apr 2005 Critical Care 2005 9 R303-R306 DOI 86 cc3537 This article is online at http content 9 4 R303 2005 Jones et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Hospital medical emergency teams METs have been implemented to reduce cardiac arrests and hospital mortality. The timing and system factors associated with their activation are poorly understood. We sought to determine the circadian pattern of MET activation and to relate it to nursing and medical activities. Method We conducted a retrospective observational study of the time of activation for 2568 incidents of MET attendance. Each attendance was allocated to one of 48 half-hour intervals over the 24-hour daily cycle. Activation was related nursing and medical activities. Results During the study period there were 120 000 consecutive overnight medical and surgical .
