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2008 RRS Conference Abstracts The 4th International Symposium on Rapid Response and Medical Emergency Teams would like to acknowledge and thank all the abstract participants and winners. Five of the best abstracts were selected among all poster submissions for an oral abstract presentation. The oral abstract winners are as follows: Michael Plaunt Marilyn Hravnak David Konrad Alan Baxter Jon Gilleland Please find the oral abstract and poster winner submissions below.
Author Name:	Title
Sean Bagshaw	A survey of nurses’ beliefs about the medical emergency team (MET) in a large Canadian academic hospital
Carlos Bautista	Management of Medical Emergencies in a Chronic/Rehabilitation Hospital
Alan Baxter	Medical Emergency Teams at The Ottawa Hospital
Alan Baxter	Identifying preventable adverse events by reviewing calls to the RACE team at an academic teaching hospital
Sandra Bazley	ICU Outreach at SPH Vancouver
Sandra Bazley	ICU Outreach at SPH Vancouver
George Blike	A Novel Continuous Pulse Oximetry Surveillance System
Lawrence Burgess	Afferent Limb: Setting Alarm Limits from Physiologic Data
Lawrence Burgess	Afferent Limb: Routine Vital Signs, A System Error?
Ingrid Dalley	Comparison of Critical Care Outreach Team Use by General Internal Medicine at an Academic and Community Centre
Alicia DiLavore	RRT Data Comparison 2006 and 2007 and Sepsis Data Analysis 2007 at Plainview Hospital
Nancy Donaldson	Impact of Rapid Response Teams—Through the Eyes of the Nurse
Penny Frownfelter	Rapid Response Implementation: A Tale of Two Hospitals
Penny Frownfelter	Help! I Need Somebody! A Nurse Led Rapid Response Team
Rose Gaiteiro	Extramural Paediatric Critical Care Response Teams: Bringing Critical Care Expertise to the Community
Jonathan Gilleland	The Experience with Family-Triggered Activation of the Critical Care Response Team at an Academic Children’s Hospital in Ontario
Jonathan Gilleland	Adherence to best-practice guidelines for management of pediatric septic shock following implementation of a critical care response team at a children's hospital
Wael Haddara	Utilization of CCRT at University Hospital
Heather Herdman	Afferent Limb: Impact of Continuous Monitoring on Nursing
Laura Holmes	Emergency Medicine as a Staffing Model for Medical Emergency Teams
Marilyn Hravnak	Impact of an Electronic Integrated Monitoring System Upon the Incidence and Duration of Patient Instability on a Step Down Unit
John Kellett	Derivation and validation of a score based on Hypotension, Oxygen saturation, low Temperature, ECG changes and Loss of independence (HOTEL) that predicts early mortality between 15 minutes and 24 hours after admission to an acute medical unit.
Maria Kinsella	Five YEar Outcomes of a Medical Emergency Team at a Community Teaching Hospital
Maria Kinsella	Medical Emergency Team Data Drives Patient Safety Through Careful Pain Management
David Konrad	Effects on in-hospital cardiac arrests, short and long term mortality by introduction of a Medical Emergency Team
Afrothite Kotsakis	The Implementation of Paediatric Critical Care Response Teams into 4 Academic Centres in Ontario
Karen Ottmann	Re-Submission: Does implementation of Paediatric Critical Care Response Team (PCCRT) in Ontario alter the Code Blue activation rate
Karen Ottmann	Under utilization of Paediatric Critical Care Response Team
Michael Plaunt	Do All Post Cardiac Surgical Patients Warrent CCRT Follow up?
Elenara Ribas	Rapid response system as education and safety improvement tool
Elenara Ribas	Rapid response systems and the demand from do not attempt to resuscitate patients
Elenara Ribas	A Rapid Response System in a Brazilian private hospital
Wilfrieda Simmes	Implementation of Outreach using an EWS
Ralph So	Hospital mortality analysis in a large teaching hospital suggests need for implementation of a rapid response system.
Lori Stier	A Review of Cardiac Arrest Codes for Opportunities to Activate Rapid Response: Findings at a Tertiary Hospital
Peter Tangkau	The Medical Emergency Team of Reinier de Graaf Hospital: results 2004-2007
Dawna VanBoxmeer	Death Reviews for Quality Improvement