Emergency Physician-Based Intensive Care Unit for Critically Ill Patients Visiting Emergency Department

To provide a prompt and optimal intensive care to critically ill patients visiting our emergency department (ED), we set up and ran a specific type of emergency intensive care unit (EICU) managed by emergency physician (EP) intensivists. We investigated whether this EICU reduced the time interval from ED arrival to ICU transfer (ED-ICU interval) without altering mortality.

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - November 15, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Hwain Jeong, Yoon Sun Jung, Gil Joon Suh, Woon Yong Kwon, Kyung Su Kim, Taegyun Kim, So Mi Shin, Min Woo Kang, Min Sung Lee Source Type: research