Caring for Critically Ill and Injured Patients in the Emergency Department

Join faculty experts as they review Emergency Physicians and Hospitalists care daily for patients who are critically ill and injured. The management of these patients is often complex and requires detailed diagnostic and therapeutic information, as well as a thorough understanding of disease pathophysiology. In this EMCREG-International Monograph, multiple critical care topics including critical respiratory illness/ventilator management, current therapy for septic shock, treatment of significant deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, management of atrial fibrillation, novel Factor Xa inhibitors and other antagonists to the clotting cascade, post-cardiac arrest resuscitation beyond hypothermia, and the use of thromboelastography to evaluate the patient’s ability to clot blood.