Implementation of critical care staff based rapid response team. effect of rapid response system to the unpredicted death

Introduction Our hospital is a tertiary 1000-bed hospital. In 2011, rapid response system (RRS) was introduced in the hospital. Our rapid response team (RRT) includes critical care physicians, critical care nurses and physical therapists. Usually, team members are working at ICU. They also provides respiratory care or critical care interventions to the patients in the wards, after discharged from ICU. It is just like a Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT), however, we call the system, Respiratory Support Team (RST) in our country. Once the RRS is activated, the team immediately responds to any type of call during 24 hours a day. The RRS is activated according to predefined criteria.