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2.11 - Importance of Monitoring and Responding to Trends in Physiological Variables

from Section 2 - Diagnosis, Assessment, Investigation, Monitoring and Data Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Ned Gilbert-Kawai
Affiliation:
The Royal Liverpool Hospital
Debashish Dutta
Affiliation:
Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow
Carl Waldmann
Affiliation:
Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading
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Key Learning Points

  1. 1. The aims are to detect clinical deterioration early in all hospitalised patients.

  2. 2. Most NHS hospitals use some form of Early Warning Score (EWS).

  3. 3. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) supports the use of a nationally standardised track and trigger system – the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2.

  4. 4. The NEWS systems aim to support consistent clinical decision-making.

  5. 5. A graded clinical response is triggered, dependent on the score, based on simple physiological parameters and their degree of deviation from the normal values.

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Intensive Care Medicine
The Essential Guide
, pp. 75 - 78
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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