Medical Emergency Teams Implementation and Outcome Measurement /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: DeVita, Michael A. (Editor), Hillman, Kenneth (Editor), Bellomo, Rinaldo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Services.; Emergency Medicine.

Why Critical Care Evolved METs? In early 2004, when Dr. Michael DeVita informed me that he was cons- ering a textbook on the new concept of Medical Emergency Teams (METs), I was surprised. At Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh we int- duced this idea some 15 years ago, but did not think...