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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
