Medical Emergency Teams: Implementation and Outcome Measurement

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 it was revolutionary enough to publish. This, even though, our fellows in critical care medicine training were all involved and informed about the importance of “C— dition C (Crisis),” as it was ...