The critical care literature 2021

An emergency physician (EP) is often the first provider to evaluate, resuscitate, and manage a critically ill patient. Over the past two decades, the annual hours of critical care delivered in emergency departments across the United States has dramatically increased. During the period from 2006 to 2...

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Published in:The American journal of emergency medicine 2023-01, Vol.63, p.12-21
Main Authors: Winters, Michael E., Hu, Kami, Martinez, Joseph P., Mallemat, Haney, Brady, William J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cardiac arrest
Cardiogenic shock
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Confidence intervals
CPR
Critical Care
Drug dosages
Emergency medical care
Enrollments
Fluid resuscitation
Heart
Heart Arrest
Hospitals
Humans
Hyperkalemia
Intubation
Length of stay
Mechanical ventilation
Paramedics
Patients
Post-arrest care
Quality of life
Rapid sequence intubation
Sepsis
Transfusion
Ventilation
Ventilators
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Summary:An emergency physician (EP) is often the first provider to evaluate, resuscitate, and manage a critically ill patient. Over the past two decades, the annual hours of critical care delivered in emergency departments across the United States has dramatically increased. During the period from 2006 to 2014, the extent of critical care provided in the emergency department (ED) to critically ill patients increased approximately 80%. During the same time period, the number of intubated patients cared for in the ED increased by approximately 16%. In addition to seeing more critically ill patients, EPs are often tasked with providing critical care long beyond the initial resuscitation period. Prolonged ED boarding times for critically ill patients is associated with increased duration of mechanical ventilation, increased intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay, increased hospital length of stay, increased medication-related adverse events, and increased in-hospital, 30-day, and 90-day mortality. As a result, it is imperative for the EP to be knowledgeable about recent developments in resuscitation and critical care medicine, so that the critically ill ED patient care receive current evidence-based care. These articles have been selected based on the authors review of key critical care, resuscitation, emergency medicine, and medicine journals and their opinion of the importance of study findings as it pertains to the care of the critically ill ED patient. Topics covered in this article include cardiac arrest, post-cardiac arrest care, rapid sequence intubation, mechanical ventilation, fluid resuscitation, cardiogenic shock, transfusions, and sepsis.
ISSN:0735-6757
1532-8171
DOI:10.1016/j.ajem.2022.10.025