Emergency and Critical Care Medicine: An Essential Component of All Specialties and Practices

Emergency and Critical Care Medicine: An Essential Component of All Specialties and Practices

Critical care and emergency medicine.

The emergency department (ED) and intensive care unit (ICU) are the frontlines in the battle against stroke. It has become increasingly clear that the efficacy of stroke therapy depends first and foremost on early intervention. However, this demanding race against time has overwhelmed many hospitals and emergency departments, creating new demands for rapid patient triage, imaging and monitoring...

Critical care and emergency medicine neurology.

Emergency Treatment of Stroke The past year was highlighted by the implementation of the Paul Coverdell Stroke Registry. This is the first American national effort to assess and facilitate use of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) in the treatment of stroke by promoting quality improvement.1 The registry goal is to reduce the disability associated with stroke. This effort is substa...

Emergency medicine and critical care medicine: the collaborative model.

Historiquement, la médecine d’urgence et la médecine de réanimation sont perçues comme deux disciplines distinctes. Selon le modèle traditionnel, le département d’urgence est responsable d’une proportion importante d’hospitalisations aux soins intensifs et les soins du patient passent de l’urgentologue à l’urgence au spécialiste en réanimation aux soins intensifs. Mais une analyse de définition...

Advances in critical care/emergency medicine 2013.

O f the many publications in this field, the ones discussed hereunder seem to be most relevant for clinical practice. Intravenous thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activa-tor (tPA) is the only therapy proven to improve outcome in ischemic stroke. Studies of intravenous thrombolysis show that response to therapy is time-dependent; the sooner the patients receive tPA, the better the chance of ...