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Available online /content/10/5/319 Meeting report Second International Conference on Rapid Response System and Medical Emergency Team, 28–30 June 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Francesca Rubulotta1 and Michael R Pinsky2 1Department of Intensive Care, Policlinico Hospital University of Catania, Italy 2Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Bioengineering and Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA Corresponding author: Michael R Pinsky, pinskymr@ Published: 27 October 2006 Critical Care 2006, 10:319 (doi:10.1186/cc5057) This article is online at /content/10/5/319 ? 2006 BioMed Central Ltd The Second International Conference on Rapid Response System (RRS) and Medical Emergency Team (MET) took place at the Pittsburgh Convention Center in June 2006. The conference was attended by more than 450 people from seven different countries. The majority of the participants were Americans, but the US attendees came from 32 different states. Michael DeVita, MD, from the University of Pittsburgh was the Program Chairman, with Dr Rinaldo Bellomo from Melbourne and Dr Ken Hillman from Sydney as the course co-directors. The program included numerous oral presentations, workshops, pro–con debates, tutorials, panel discussion and poster presentations. In attendance were standing previous inaccuracies. Presently, the state of the art often is that patients who die in general wards have often received delayed or inadequate care. The intent of a RRS is to prevent harm and death in patients acutely deteriorating in the hospital. A RRS is an organized structure composed of several elements including an afferent arm and an efferent arm. The response or efferent arm is called the MET or rapid response team. A MET is composed of a trained group of healthcare practitioners who respond to crises outside the emergency department or