Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine

Given the increase in critically ill patients who present to the ED in need of resuscitation, along with the increase in those who board...

More than 350,000 cardiac arrests occur each year in North America.  Approximately 100,000 of these arrests are due to shockable rhythms.  Unfortunately, many patients...

Approximately 3 million critically ill patients are intubated and initiated on mechanical ventilation each year in the United States. A critical component of mechanical...

The emergency department resuscitation of patients with sepsis focuses on early recognition, timely administration of appropriate antibiotics, appropriate fluid resuscitation, early vasopressor initiation for...

The care of patients with return of spontaneous circulation following cardiac arrest centers on optimizing oxygenation and ventilation, optimizing hemodynamics, identifying patients that require...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement is now more common than open surgical replacement and may be associated with lower mortality.  Given the significant increase in...