Emergency, Critical Care & System Resilience

Practical playbooks, quickcards, checklists, and escalation tools to help healthcare teams respond to deterioration, sepsis, transfers, disasters, and maintain service continuity.


playbook

ED Throughput & Boarding Playbook: Tactics, Huddles, and Escalation

A practical ED throughput playbook with reproducible triage rules, streaming low-acuity pathways, observation-unit triggers, a clear bed escalation ladder, admission vs observation criteria, patient-communication scripts for delays, a daily flow metrics pack, and a 14-day pilot plan for rapid improvement.

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Quickcards

Rapid Response & Sepsis Quickcards

Pocket-sized clinician quickcards with concise recognition cues, immediate bedside actions, timing goals, and a customizable escalation ladder for sepsis and acute deterioration. Includes deployment, customization, and testing guidance so teams can adopt and adapt the cards safely.

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checklist

Critical Care Transfer, Transport & Transfusion Safety Checklist (Interactive)

An interactive, saveable checklist for interfacility and intrahospital critical-care transfers that combines pre-transfer stabilization, communication & handoff script, equipment/medication verification, and a transfusion safety sub-checklist. Designed for real-time use, documentation, and training.

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Tool

ED Throughput Escalation Ladder & Communication Scripts

An actionable escalation ladder with required facts, tiered contacts, editable communication scripts, and a one-page quick reference — now paired with a short interactive escalation log to standardize, save, and track escalation events.

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