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Part of the What Do I Do Now: Emergency Medicine series, Critical Care Emergencies covers both common and unique critical, can't-miss diagnosis and management scenarios. This text will benefit any emergency medicine or acute care specialist seeking to manage critical care cases encountered in the Emergency Department.
List of contents
- Part I. Airway
- 1. I Can't Breathe: Difficult Intubations
- 2. Breathing from the Neck: Tracheostomy Emergencies
- 3. The Challenge Down Under: Subglottic Airway Access Issues (tracheal stenosis, laryngectomies, Montgomery T)
- 4. Physiologically Difficult Airways
- 5. Coughing up Blood: Massive Hemoptysis
- Part II. Breathing
- 6. Problems Outside the Lung: Pneumothorax and Pleural Effusions
- 7. Help Me Breathe: High Flow NC vs. NIV Troubleshooting
- 8. Intubated and Boarded in the ED: Ventilator 101
- 9. I Still Can't Breathe: ARDS and Advanced Ventilator
- 10. Upside Down is Best: Practical Proning
- 11. Refractory Hypoxemia: Influenza and VV ECMO
- Part III. Circulation
- 12. Hot and Shocky: Distributive/ Septic Hypotension
- 13. The Engine Isn't Working: Cardiogenic Shock States (RV vs. LV failure)
- 14. A Pump Replacement (LVADs)
- 15. The Other Heart Failure: Pulmonary Hypertension and RV Dysfunction
- 16. Vasopressor Cocktails (We all have drug shortages)
- 17. Cardiac Arrest and ED-ECMO
- 18. Too Slow To Go: Transvenous Pacing
- 19. Choked Off: Tamponade
- Part IV. Organ Specific
- 20. Brain on Fire: Status Epilepticus
- 21. The Pressure Is Too Much: Traumatic Brain Injuries and Intracranial Hypertension
- 22. Brain Plumbing Problems: Ischemic vs. Hemorrhagic Strokes
- 23. The Worst Headache of My Life: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- 24. I Feel Weak: Myasthenic or Neuromuscular Emergencies (ie. GBS, acute spinal cord, etc.)
- 25. Stop The Bleed: Procedures for Hemostatic Control
- (Minnesota Tube, Hemostatic Agents, Tourniquets)
- 26. I'm Bleeding! Hemorrhagic Resuscitation (rapid transfuser, 1:1:1 products)
- 27. Reversal Agents: Antidotes for Anticoagulants (NOAC reversals, transfusion)
- 28. Blood from Both Ends: GI Bleeding
- 29. I am Yellow: Complications of Cirrhosis
- 30. I Can't Pee: Acute Renal Failure in the ED
- 31. Electrolyte Emergencies
- 32. Endocrine Emergencies
- 33. What Did I Miss? Differential Diagnosis in Solid Organ Transplant Patients
- 34. Cancer Alphabet Soup: Oncology Complications
- 35. Hot as a Hare: Critically Ill Toxidromes
- 36. Dying in the ED: Death Trajectories and Palliative Care in the ED
About the author
Lillian Liang Emlet, MD, MS is an emergency physician who practices both critical care medicine in a medical-surgical ICU and also part-time emergency medicine in community setting. She is an Associate Program Director in the Multidisciplinary Critical Care Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
Summary
Part of the What Do I Do Now: Emergency Medicine series, Critical Care Emergencies covers both common and unique critical, can't-miss diagnosis and management scenarios. This text will benefit any emergency medicine or acute care specialist seeking to manage critical care cases encountered in the Emergency Department.
Additional text
This book is a valuable tool for the front-line provider in emergency care. Clinical scenarios effectively provide dimensions for the problems faced at the bedside. This is an easily read resource for the provider covering the overnight shift where immediate problems can arise suddenly. Approaches to clinical dilemmas are easily readable and useable.
