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Effectiveness of the Medical Emergency Team: the importance of dose.

Jones D, Bellomo R, Devita MA.

Crit Care. 2009 Oct 6;13(5):313. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 19825203 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

Rapid response system.

Sakai T, Devita MA.

J Anesth. 2009;23(3):403-8. Epub 2009 Aug 14.PMID: 19685122 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

Society for simulation in healthcare presidential address, January 2009.

Devita MA.

Simul Healthc. 2009 Spring;4(1):43-8. No abstract available. PMID: 19212250 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

A fresh look at the MERIT trial: do rapid response systems improve outcome?

DeVita MA.

Crit Care Med. 2009 Jan;37(1):349-50. No abstract available. PMID: 19112299 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Outcomes of a hospital-wide plan to improve care of comatose survivors of cardiac arrest.

Rittenberger JC, Guyette FX, Tisherman SA, DeVita MA, Alvarez RJ, Callaway CW.

Resuscitation. 2008 Nov;79(2):198-204.PMID: 18951113 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The use of medical emergency teams in medical and surgical patients: impact of patient, nurse and organisational characteristics.

Schmid-Mazzoccoli A, Hoffman LA, Wolf GA, Happ MB, Devita MA.

Qual Saf Health Care. 2008 Oct;17(5):377-81.PMID: 18842979 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Defining the incidence of cardiorespiratory instability in patients in step-down units using an electronic integrated monitoring system.

Hravnak M, Edwards L, Clontz A, Valenta C, Devita MA, Pinsky MR.

Arch Intern Med. 2008 Jun 23;168(12):1300-8.PMID: 18574087 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Donors after cardiac death: validation of identification criteria (DVIC) study for predictors of rapid death.

DeVita MA, Brooks MM, Zawistowski C, Rudich S, Daly B, Chaitin E.

Am J Transplant. 2008 Feb;8(2):432-41. Epub 2008 Jan 7.PMID: 18190657 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Caring for organs or for patients? Ethical concerns about the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (2006).

DeVita MA, Caplan AL.

Ann Intern Med. 2007 Dec 18;147(12):876-9.PMID: 18087059 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Simulation and the prognosis for the apprenticeship model of health care education.

DeVita MA.

J Intensive Care Med. 2007 Sep-Oct;22(5):310-1. No abstract available. PMID: 17895489 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Rapid response systems: Is it the team or the system that is working?

Devita MA, Smith GB.

Crit Care Med. 2007 Sep;35(9):2218-9. No abstract available. PMID: 17713373 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Mature rapid response system and potentially avoidable cardiopulmonary arrests in hospital.

Galhotra S, DeVita MA, Simmons RL, Dew MA; Members of the Medical Emergency Response Improvement Team (MERIT) Committee.

Qual Saf Health Care. 2007 Aug;16(4):260-5.PMID: 17693672 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Rapid response systems: is yet another before-and-after trial needed?

DeVita MA.

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007 May;8(3):297-8. No abstract available. PMID: 17496517 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The case of rapid response systems: are randomized clinical trials the right methodology to evaluate systems of care?

DeVita MA, Bellomo R.

Crit Care Med. 2007 May;35(5):1413-4. No abstract available. PMID: 17446732 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Utilizing simulation technology for competency skills assessment and a comparison of traditional methods of training to simulation-based training.

Tuttle RP, Cohen MH, Augustine AJ, Novotny DF, Delgado E, Dongilli TA, Lutz JW, DeVita MA.

Respir Care. 2007 Mar;52(3):263-70.PMID: 17328824 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Prevalence and predictors of corticosteroid-related hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients.

Donihi AC, Raval D, Saul M, Korytkowski MT, DeVita MA.

Endocr Pract. 2006 Jul-Aug;12(4):358-62.PMID: 16901792 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Introduction to the rapid response systems series.

DeVita MA, Bellomo R, Hillman K.

Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2006 Jul;32(7):359-60. No abstract available. PMID: 16884121 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Findings of the first consensus conference on medical emergency teams.

Devita MA, Bellomo R, Hillman K, Kellum J, Rotondi A, Teres D, Auerbach A, Chen WJ, Duncan K, Kenward G, Bell M, Buist M, Chen J, Bion J, Kirby A, Lighthall G, Ovreveit J, Braithwaite RS, Gosbee J, Milbrandt E, Peberdy M, Savitz L, Young L, Harvey M, Galhotra S.

Crit Care Med. 2006 Sep;34(9):2463-78. Erratum in: Crit Care Med. 2006 Dec;34(12):3070. Harvey, Maurene [added]. PMID: 16878033 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Medical emergency teams: a strategy for improving patient care and nursing work environments.

Galhotra S, Scholle CC, Dew MA, Mininni NC, Clermont G, DeVita MA.

J Adv Nurs. 2006 Jul;55(2):180-7.PMID: 16866810 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Impact of patient monitoring on the diurnal pattern of medical emergency team activation.

Galhotra S, DeVita MA, Simmons RL, Schmid A; members of the Medical Emergency Response Improvement Team (MERIT) Committee.

Crit Care Med. 2006 Jun;34(6):1700-6.PMID: 16625132 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Use of a standardized protocol to decrease medication errors and adverse events related to sliding scale insulin.

Donihi AC, DiNardo MM, DeVita MA, Korytkowski MT.

Qual Saf Health Care. 2006 Apr;15(2):89-91.PMID: 16585106 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Report of a National Conference on Donation after cardiac death.

Bernat JL, D'Alessandro AM, Port FK, Bleck TP, Heard SO, Medina J, Rosenbaum SH, Devita MA, Gaston RS, Merion RM, Barr ML, Marks WH, Nathan H, O'connor K, Rudow DL, Leichtman AB, Schwab P, Ascher NL, Metzger RA, Mc Bride V, Graham W, Wagner D, Warren J, Delmonico FL.

Am J Transplant. 2006 Feb;6(2):281-91.PMID: 16426312 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Ethics guidelines for research with the recently dead.

Pentz RD, Cohen CB, Wicclair M, DeVita MA, Flamm AL, Youngner SJ, Hamric AB, McCabe MS, Glover JJ, Kittiko WJ, Kinlaw K, Keller J, Asch A, Kavanagh JJ, Arap W.

Nat Med. 2005 Nov;11(11):1145-9.PMID: 16270065 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Improving medical emergency team (MET) performance using a novel curriculum and a computerized human patient simulator.

DeVita MA, Schaefer J, Lutz J, Wang H, Dongilli T.

Qual Saf Health Care. 2005 Oct;14(5):326-31.PMID: 16195564 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Committee for Oversight of Research Involving the Dead (CORID): insights from the first year.

Yasko LL, Wicclair M, DeVita MA.

Camb Q Healthc Ethics. 2004 Fall;13(4):327-37. No abstract available. PMID: 15552324 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Use of medical emergency team (MET) responses to detect medical errors.

Braithwaite RS, DeVita MA, Mahidhara R, Simmons RL, Stuart S, Foraida M; Medical Emergency Response Improvement Team (MERIT).

Qual Saf Health Care. 2004 Aug;13(4):255-9.PMID: 15289627 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Use of medical emergency team responses to reduce hospital cardiopulmonary arrests.

DeVita MA, Braithwaite RS, Mahidhara R, Stuart S, Foraida M, Simmons RL; Medical Emergency Response Improvement Team (MERIT).

Qual Saf Health Care. 2004 Aug;13(4):251-4.PMID: 15289626 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

New aspects on critical care medicine training.

Grenvik A, Schaefer JJ 3rd, DeVita MA, Rogers P.

Curr Opin Crit Care. 2004 Aug;10(4):233-7. Review.PMID: 15258494 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Training on newly deceased patients.

DeVita MA.

Surgery. 2004 May;135(5):566. No abstract available. PMID: 15139360 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

A descriptive study of children dying in the pediatric intensive care unit after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment.

Zawistowski CA, DeVita MA.

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2004 May;5(3):216-23.PMID: 15115557 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Improving medical crisis team performance.

DeVita MA, Schaefer J, Lutz J, Dongilli T, Wang H.

Crit Care Med. 2004 Feb;32(2 Suppl):S61-5. Review. No abstract available. PMID: 15043232 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Non-heartbeating organ donation: a review.

Zawistowski CA, DeVita MA.

J Intensive Care Med. 2003 Jul-Aug;18(4):189-97. Review.PMID: 15035765 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Improving the utilization of medical crisis teams (Condition C) at an urban tertiary care hospital.

Foraida MI, DeVita MA, Braithwaite RS, Stuart SA, Brooks MM, Simmons RL.

J Crit Care. 2003 Jun;18(2):87-94.PMID: 12800118 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Research involving the newly dead: an institutional response.

DeVita MA, Wicclair M, Swanson D, Valenta C, Schold C; Ethics Committee UPMC Presbyterian Hospital; Committee for the Oversight of Research Involving the Dead, University of Pittsburgh.

Crit Care Med. 2003 May;31(5 Suppl):S385-90. Review. No abstract available. PMID: 12771588 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Current controversies in critical care ethics: not just end of life.

DeVita MA, Groeger J, Truog R.

Crit Care Med. 2003 May;31(5 Suppl):S343. No abstract available. PMID: 12771579 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Teaching palliative care to critical care medicine trainees.

DeVita MA, Arnold RM, Barnard D.

Crit Care Med. 2003 Apr;31(4):1257-62.PMID: 12682501 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: The Ethics Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Truog RD, Cist AF, Brackett SE, Burns JP, Curley MA, Danis M, DeVita MA, Rosenbaum SH, Rothenberg DM, Sprung CL, Webb SA, Wlody GS, Hurford WE.

Crit Care Med. 2001 Dec;29(12):2332-48. No abstract available. PMID: 11801837 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Honestly, do we need a policy on truth?

DeVita MA.

Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 2001 Jun;11(2):157-64.PMID: 11708332 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The ethics of medical mistakes: historical, legal, and institutional perspectives. Introduction.

DeVita MA, Aulisio MP.

Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 2001 Jun;11(2):115-6. No abstract available. PMID: 11699547 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Non-heartbeating organ donation: ethical controversies and medical considerations.

Ozark S, DeVita MA.

Int Anesthesiol Clin. 2001 Summer;39(3):103-16. Review. No abstract available. PMID: 11524603 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The death watch: certifying death using cardiac criteria.

DeVita MA.

Prog Transplant. 2001 Mar;11(1):58-66. Review.PMID: 11357558 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Patients, families, and organ donation: who should decide?

May T, Aulisio MP, DeVita MA.

Milbank Q. 2000;78(2):323-36, 152.PMID: 10934996 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Decisions by conscious persons about controlled NHBD after death: eyes wide open.

DeVita MA, May T.

J Clin Ethics. 2000 Spring;11(1):85-9; discussion 92-3. No abstract available. PMID: 10904896 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Observations of withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from patients who became non-heart-beating organ donors.

DeVita MA, Snyder JV, Arnold RM, Siminoff LA.

Crit Care Med. 2000 Jun;28(6):1709-12.PMID: 10890607 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

When is "dead"?

Youngner SJ, Arnold RM, DeVita MA.

Hastings Cent Rep. 1999 Nov-Dec;29(6):14-21. No abstract available. PMID: 10641239 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Non-heart-beating organ donation: a reply to Campbell and Weber.

DeVita MA, Vukmir R, Snyder JV, Graziano C.

Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 1995 Mar;5(1):43-9.PMID: 11645297 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Procuring organs from a non-heart-beating cadaver: a case report.

DeVita MA, Vukmir R, Snyder JV, Graziano C.

Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 1993 Dec;3(4):371-85.PMID: 10130754 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Nasal mask ventilation in acute respiratory failure.

DeVita MA.

Chest. 1993 Oct;104(4):1316. No abstract available. PMID: 8404233 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Development of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center policy for the care of terminally ill patients who may become organ donors after death following the removal of life support.

DeVita MA, Snyder JV.

Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 1993 Jun;3(2):131-43.PMID: 10126526 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

History of organ donation by patients with cardiac death.

DeVita MA, Snyder JV, Grenvik A.

Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 1993 Jun;3(2):113-29. Review.PMID: 10126525 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles