Effect of the medical emergency team on long-term mortality following major surgeryDaryl Jones
Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre ANZIC RC, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
Crit Care 11:R12. 2007
..The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of the MET and other variables on long-term mortality in this patient population...
- Introduction of medical emergency teams in Australia and New Zealand: a multi-centre study
Daryl Jones
Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 89 Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Victoria, Australia
Crit Care 12:R46. 2008
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- Long-term effect of a Medical Emergency Team on mortality in a teaching hospital
Daryl Jones
Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Resuscitation 74:235-41. 2007
..To assess the effect of a Medical Emergency Team (MET) service on patient mortality in the 4 years since its introduction into a teaching hospital...
- Long term effect of a medical emergency team on cardiac arrests in a teaching hospital
Daryl Jones
Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria 3181, Australia
Crit Care 9:R808-15. 2005
..Our findings show sustainability and suggest that, for every 17 MET calls, one cardiac arrest might be prevented...
- Patient monitoring and the timing of cardiac arrests and medical emergency team calls in a teaching hospital
Daryl Jones
Intensive Care, Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Intensive Care Med 32:1352-6. 2006
..Increased overnight utilization and earlier MET activation may further reduce the incidence of cardiac arrests at our hospital...
- The epidemiology and outcome of medical emergency team call patients treated with non-invasive ventilation
Antoine G Schneider
Intensive Care Unit, Austin Health 145 Studley Road Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria 3084, Australia
Resuscitation 82:1218-23. 2011
..However, NIV is sometimes used by the Medical Emergency Team (MET) as respiratory support for ward patients...
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Andrew Davies
FRACP, FJFICM, Intensive Care Unit, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
JAMA 302:1888-95. 2009
..It caused an epidemic of critical illness and some patients developed severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and were treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)...
- Introduction of a rapid response system: why we are glad we MET
Daryl Jones
Department of Intensive Care (Monash University, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne, Australia
Crit Care 10:121. 2006
..Furthermore, they have allowed improved analysis and characterization of 'at-risk' patients and their needs. Four years later, we remain glad we MET...
- Features and outcome of patients receiving multiple Medical Emergency Team reviews
Paolo Calzavacca
Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Resuscitation 81:1509-15. 2010
..Accordingly, we studied the characteristics and outcome of patients receiving one MET call and compared them with those receiving multiple MET reviews...
- Using an MET service to manage hemorrhage post-percutaneous liver biopsy
Daryl Jones
Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:459-62, 417. 2006
..The hospital's medical emergency team expedited involvement of all required services when it was called in twice for episodes of bleeding...
- Epidemiology and patient outcome after medical emergency team calls triggered by atrial fibrillation
Antoine Schneider
Intensive Care Unit, Austin Health, 145 Studley Road, 3084 Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Resuscitation 82:410-4. 2011
..Atrial fibrillation (AF) in hospitalized patients may lead to activation of the medical emergency team (MET). We sought to assess the baseline characteristics and outcomes of the patients presenting AF as a cause of MET call activation...
- Conscious sedation on a general ward: the MET and clinical governance
Stephen Warrillow
Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:112-7, 61. 2007
..A medical emergency team's encounter with a 75-year-old man with a difficult airway led to the hospital's review of conscious sedation use and refinement of quality improvement strategies...
- Circadian pattern of activation of the medical emergency team in a teaching hospital
Daryl Jones
Department of Intensive Care, Melbourne University, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Crit Care 9:R303-6. 2005
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- Medical emergency team syndromes and an approach to their management
Daryl Jones
Intensive Care Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3004
Crit Care 10:R30. 2006
..Further evaluation and validation of the approach are required...
- The incidence and outcome of septic shock patients in the absence of early-goal directed therapy
Benjamin C H Ho
Department of Intensive Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Crit Care 10:R80. 2006
..CONCLUSION: In an Australian teaching hospital candidates for EGDT were uncommon and, in the absence of an EGDT protocol, their mortality was lower than that reported with EGDT...
- Using an MET service to manage an acute thromboembolic stroke
Daryl Jones
Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:361-5, 357. 2006
..The hospital's medical emergency team expedited involvement of all required services when it was called in twice for episodes of bleeding...
- Renal-dose dopamine: from hypothesis to paradigm to dogma to myth and, finally, superstition?
Daryl Jones
Department of Intensive Care, Melbourne University, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
J Intensive Care Med 20:199-211. 2005
..Currently, there is insufficient evidence to support the use of renal-dose dopamine in the intensive care unit...
- Myoglobin clearance by super high-flux hemofiltration in a case of severe rhabdomyolysis: a case report
Toshio Naka
Department of Intensive Care, Melbourne University, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Crit Care 9:R90-5. 2005
..CONCLUSIONS: SHF hemofiltration achieved a much greater clearance of myoglobin than conventional hemofiltration, and it may provide a potential modality for the treatment of myoglobinuric acute renal failure...
- Epidemiology and 12-month outcomes from traumatic brain injury in australia and new zealand
John A Myburgh
Department of Intensive Care, The St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia
J Trauma 64:854-62. 2008
..An epidemiologic profile of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Australia and New Zealand was obtained following the publication of international evidence-based guidelines...
- Using a medical emergency team to manage anaphylactic shock
Brendan Burns
Critical Care Unit, Joondalup Health Campus, Joondalup, Western Australia
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:360-3. 2008
..A case of presumed anaphylactic shock highlights early detection and review, rapid mobilization of the effector arm, and identification of implications for quality improvement...
- Using an MET service to manage hemorrhage post-percutaneous liver biopsy
Daryl Jones
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:459-62, 417. 2006
..The hospital's medical emergency team expedited involvement of all required services when it was called in twice for episodes of bleeding...
- Characteristics and outcomes of patients receiving a medical emergency team review for acute change in conscious state or arrhythmias
Andrew W Downey
Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia
Crit Care Med 36:477-81. 2008
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