The Impact of Respiratory Compromise
Respiratory Compromise is the leading cause of ICU admissions1, rescue calls2, and ‘code blues’.3
It is expected to cost the U.S. system $37 billion by 20194, has a mortality rate 29 times that of patients without RC5, and yet it was judged preventable 64% of the time.6
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TOPIC: Respiratory Compromise
1 Society for Critical Care Medicine – Critical Care Statistics. http://www.sccm.org/Communications/Critical-Care-Statistics
2 Curry JP and Jungquist CR. A critical assessment of monitoring practices, patient deterioration, and alarm fatigue on inpatient wards: a review. Patient Safety in Surgery 2014, 8:29. http://www.pssjournal.com/content/8/1/29
3 Schein RM, Hazday N, Pena M, Ruben BH, Sprung CL. Clinical Antecedents to In-hospital Cardiopulmonary Arrest. Chest (1990) 98; 6,1388-92.
4 Agarwal SJ, Erslon MG, Bloom JD. Projected Incidence and Cost of Respiratory Failure, Insufficiency and Arrest in Medicare Population, 2019. Annual Meeting of Academy Health, June 2011; Poster 567.
5 Kelley SD, Agarwal S, Parikh N, Erslon M, Morris P. Respiratory insufficiency, arrest and failure among medical patients on the general care floor. Crit Care Med 2012; 40(12):764.
6 Hodgetts TJ, Kenward G, Vlackonikolis I, Payne S, et al. Incidence, location and reasons for avoidable in-hospital cardiac arrest in a district general hospital. Resus 2002; 54:115-123