title: Integration of a difficult airway response team into a hospital emergency response system.
abstract: Hospital-wide emergency response teams have been an area of development for several decades. Highly specialized to address emergent needs, they mimic the cardiac-pulmonary arrest teams established at hospitals nationwide, such as heart attack, brain attack, medical emergency, rapid response, and difficult airway response teams (DART). The DART at Johns Hopkins Hospital is a collaboration of the Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, General Surgery, and Emergency Medicine departments. This successful model may be used by other hospitals to establish improved and comprehensive care of the difficult airway patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 North Caroline Street, 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21287-0910, USA.
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chmielewska
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans Street, Zayed 9127, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Bradford D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Winters
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans Street, Phipps 409, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Vinciya
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pandian
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 North Caroline Street, 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21287-0910, USA. Electronic address: ahillel@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Alexander T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Hillel
mesh_terms: D058109:Airway Management / Q000379:methods*; D003422:Critical Care; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D057209:Hospital Rapid Response Team; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: Difficult airway patient; Difficult airway response team; Medical emergency teams; Multidisciplinary; Rapid response system; Rapid response teams