Implementing an Interprofessional Difficult Airway Response Team to Identify and Manage High-Risk Airways.

Objective: To describe a multidisciplinary approach to and results from the creation of a difficult airway response team (DART) to address the management of inpatient loss of airway events.

Methods: Description of an interprofessional process to establish and sustain a DART program at a tertiary care hospital. An Institutional Review Board-approved retrospective review of the quantitative results was conducted from November 2019 through March 2021.