Objectives: To determine whether IV vitamin C therapy reduces 28-day mortality in patients with septic shock.
Design: Multicenter, double-blinded, randomized controlled trial.
Setting: One academic medical ICU and four community ICUs.
In-hospital medical emergencies occur frequently. Understanding how clinicians respond to deteriorating patients outside the intensive care unit (ICU) could improve "rescue" interventions and rapid response programs. This was a qualitative study with interviews with 40 clinicians caring for patients who had a "Code Blue" activation or an unplanned ICU admission at teaching hospitals over 7 months.
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