Overview
STEP is a pediatric critical care outreach team that is part of the Alberta Children’s Hospital’s (ACH) rapid response system (RRS). STEP is an acronym that stands for Support Team for Emergency Prevention. STEP is comprised of pediatric intensive care nurses, respiratory therapists and physicians and brings pediatric critical care expertise and experience to frontline care health care providers caring for children outside of the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). STEP’s primary goal is prevention of emergent or crash admissions to the intensive care unit, prevention of code blues and cardiac arrests and reduction of preventable morbidity and mortality from these events.