Beyond Triage and Resuscitation: Optimizing Care for the Critically Ill Emergency Department Patient

During my last shift in the emergency department (ED), I assumed care at sign-out of an intubated patient with an acute asthma exacerbation as well as a patient with cardiogenic pulmonary edema who was receiving noninvasive ventilation. Shortly thereafter, prehospital personnel brought us a patient with respiratory failure due to emphysema who needed to be intubated, followed by a patient having an acute stroke who would receive thrombolytics, followed by a patient with hypotension who would later require pressors for septic shock.
Source: Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Foreword Source Type: research