The Rapid Response System

Respond to a “spark” before it becomes a “forest fire”

The care of in-hospital patients is complex, a result of more advanced treatments being performed, rising patient age and multiple co morbidities.

A significant proportion of hospital patients experience serious adverse events during their stay, including cardiac arrest.  Studies have established that many of these events are preceded by warning signs in the form of physiologic instability such as tachycardia, tachypnea and hypotension. In theory, if abnormal physiology is identified and corrected early, outcome may improve.  From here the idea of the "Rapid Response System" was born.

Although we recognize that people often need to reinvent locally, we do not want people to invent locally when in fact, solutions are already out there that they can copy.

Since this system was started in the west more than five years ago, we are supposed to build on their experience, so that we may start from where they reached.

The SCCS considers the” Rapid Response System” as a standard of care that should be promoted in hospitals throughout the Kingdom.