Medical Reference Catalogue
9
Decision Making in
Emergency Critical
Care
John E Arbo, MD
Assistant Professor, Division
of Emergency Medicine and
Critical Care Medicine,
Director, Critical Care
Education – Division of
Emergency Medicine, New York
Presbyterian Hospital – Weil
Cornell Medical Center, New
York, NY
Stephen J. Ruoss, MD
Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Co-Chief, Division
of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University Medical
Center, Stanford, CA
Geoffrey K. Lighthall, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford
University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Michael P. Jones, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Program Director
– Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
July 2014 / Paperback
Approx. 656 pp. / Approx. 250 lllus
9781451186895
DESCRIPTION
FEATURES
FEATURES
Looking for a brief but authoritative resource to help you manage the
types of complex cardiac, pulmonary, and neurological emergencies
you encounter as a resident or attending emergency room physician?
Look no further than Decision Making in Emergency Critical Care:
An Evidence-Based Handbook. This portable guide to rational
clinical decision-making in the challenging – and changing – world of
emergency critical care provides in every chapter a streamlined review
of a common problem in critical care medicine, along with evidence-
based guidelines and summary tables of landmark literature.
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Prepare for effective critical care practice in the emergency room’s
often chaotic and resource-limited environment with expert guidance
from fellows and attending physicians in the fields of emergency
medicine, pulmonary and critical care medicine, cardiology,
gastroenterology, and neurocritical care.
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Master critical care fundamentals as experts guide you through the
initial resuscitation and the continued management of critical care
patients during their first 24 hours of intensive care.
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Confidently make sustained, data-driven decisions for the critically
ill patient using expert information on everything from hemodynamic
monitoring and critical care ultrasonography to sepsis and septic
shock to the ED-ICU transfer of care.
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Chapters will be selected using a proprietary algorithm supplemented
by expert consensus.
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The articles will be grouped by content area: Trauma; Cardiology;
Sepsis; MSK; Pediatric Emergencies; Allergy; Neurology; Infectious
Disease; Nephrology; Pulmonary; Gastroenterology; and Toxicology.
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Each chapter will follow a prescribed template: Background,
Objectives, Methods, Key Results; Study Conclusions, Commentary
and one question/answer.
An Evidence-Based
Handbook
EMERGENCY MEDICINE, TOXICOLOGY & TRAUMA
Emergency
Medicine Evidence
Emily Aaronson, MD
Erik Antonsen M.D., Ph.D.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ron MWalls MD, FACEP,
FRCPC
Chairman, Department of
Emergency Medicine, Brigham
and Women's Hospital, Boston,
MA; Associate Professor
of Medicine (Emergency
Medicine), Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA
Jonathan N Adler MD, MS,
FACEP, FAAEM
Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Assistant in
Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Instructor in
Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
June 2014 / Paperback
Approx. 256 pp.
9781451192988
DESCRIPTION
Emergency Medicine Evidence will provide a one-page synopsis of each
of 100 sentinel studies in Emergency Medicine. Each synopsis will be
complemented by an editor’s commentary on the critical impact of the
research and provide the context for incorporating the study findings
into practice. Emergency Medicine Evidence gives medical learners a
launch pad to enter the world of evidence-based medicine – offering
them an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the key studies that
are the foundation of the essential literacy for their specialty.
