Emergency Department Resuscitation of the Critically Ill

You’re working in the emergency department, and a patient is crashing right before your eyes. Do you know what to do? Don’t wait until the point of care to find out – learn it ahead of time! Learn it now from the nation’s foremost authorities in emergency medicine critical care. This eBook teaches you how to do what’s right right now – evidence-based guidelines, algorithms, key points, pearls, quick-reference tables and figures, the information you need to learn to take the best possible care of patients when they need it most – succinct, straightforward, lifesaving. What conditions does it cover? Shock, sepsis, post–cardiac arrest management, deadly arrhythmias, trauma, poisoning, asthma, difficult emergency delivery, fluid management, aortic catastrophes, and resuscitation of critically ill neonates and older pediatric patients, and much more. Written by more than 40 national experts, and edited by Michael E. Winters, MD, FACEP, FAAEM; Peter DeBlieux, MD, FACEP; Evie G. Marcolini, MD, FAAEM; Michael C. Bond, MD, FACEP, FAAEM; and Dale P. Woolridge, MD, PhD, FACEP. Published by the American College of Emergency Physicians, the world’s oldest and largest emergency medicine organization. Twenty-four chapters, 230 flowcharts, illustrations, diagnostic images, and tables and charts.