Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine

Nearly 200,000 patients are admitted to the hospital each year in the United States for acute asthma exacerbations.  Approximately 2% of patients are intubated...

Accurate assessment of intravascular volume is critical in managing sick patients in the emergency department or intensive care unit.   In this podcast we discuss...

Each year, hundreds of articles are published that pertain to the resuscitation and care of critically ill emergency department patients. In this podcast, we...

More than 600,000 patients in North America sustain sudden cardiac arrest each year.  When return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is achieved, there are a...

Emergency physicians intubate critically ill patients daily.  Unfortunately, up to 17% of ED intubations can be complicated by peri-intubation hypoxemia, hypotension, and cardiac arrest....

Critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation require analgesia and sedation.  At present, propofol remains the most widely used sedative for intubated/ventilated patients.  Recent trials...