Author/Authors :
Gülaçtı, Umut Adıyaman University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Emergency Medicine, Turkey , Çelik, Mahir Elazığ Harput State Hospital - Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Turkey , Akçay, Salaheddin Süleyman Demirel University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology, Turkey , Erdoğan, Mehmet Özgür Haydarpaşa Education and Research Hospital - Department of Emergency Medicine, Turkey , Üstün, Cemal Abant İzzet Baysal University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Turkey
Abstract :
Despite advances in medical technology, the mortality of in-hospital cardiac arrests is high. Many countries prefer experienced medical emergency teams (MET) for in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (1, 2). Because of its activation criteria involving vital signs of physiological instability happening in 80% of arrest patients 24 h prior to the emergency, MET reaches patients before sudden death and cardiopulmonary arrest.
