Table of Contents:
  • The origins of critical care outreach / Derek Bainbridge
  • Designing an outreach service / David Wood
  • Audit case study : scoring all observations compared with scoring on concern / David Wood
  • The initial assessment and care of the 'at risk patient' / Jeremy Groves, Jayne Tague and Lee Cutler
  • Specific clinical problems / Lee Cutler, Elaine Shaw and David Wood
  • Sharing critical care skills / Lee Cutler, Kathryn Warren and Rinky Ingles
  • Case study : the use of high level clinical simulation in critical care nurse education / Lee Cutler and Judith Cutler
  • Role expansion and the critical care outreach nurse / Lee Cutler and Denise Honnor
  • Case study : expanding the role of the nurse in critical care outreach / Elaine Shaw
  • Transfering patients from critical care to the ward / Wayne Robson
  • Critical care outreach follow up / Kate Bray
  • Patient diaries / Wayne Robson, Gayle Wheeldon and Denise Penney
  • Establishing and managing a critical care outreach team : a practical approach / Alex Larkin
  • Case study : the role of the physiotherapist in the critical care outreach team / Alex Larkin and Sally Knightly
  • The learning needs of critical care outreach practitioners / Lee Cutler - Managing change in critical care outreach : a toolkit for practice / Nicola Platts and Sue Shepherd
  • Evaluation of critical care outreach : are the resources for outreach justified? / Paul Whitting and David Edbrooke