Emergency Department Critical Care
This comprehensive book provides practical guidance on the care of the critical patient in the emergency department. It focuses on the ED physician or provider working in a community hospital where, absent the consulting specialists found in a large
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Emergency Department Critical Care
Joseph R. Shiber Editor
Scott D. Weingart Consulting Editor
Emergency Department Critical Care
Editors Joseph R. Shiber College of Medicine University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville, FL USA
Scott D. Weingart Resuscitation & Emergency Critical Care Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY USA
ISBN 978-3-030-28792-4 ISBN 978-3-030-28794-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28794-8 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
Our goal for this text is to provide a resource for the care of the critically ill and injured patient in the community ED and ICU. Unlike a major academic center that may have all of the necessary resources and specialty consultants on site, the community hospital physician may be required to provide all of the required care themselves for definitive treatment or to stabilize the patient for transport to a referral center. With that goal in mind, we have created a new book written almost entirely by Emergency Medicine residency-trained physicians with fellowship training in critical care. The only non-critical care-trained authors are Emergency Medicine physicians with additional fellowship training (pediatrics, toxicology, emergency medical systems, etc.). We are proud to include as authors several of the founders of Emergency Medicine Critical Care (EMCC), Drs. Emanuel Rivers and Jay Falk, as well as many of the current group of EM-CC physicians who have taken the baton to lead onward with advancing clinical care, research, and education efforts dealing with Emergency Medicine Critical Care. This book is a hybrid, just as the authors and
