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Critical Care Medicine. Critical Care Medicine covers all aspects of acute and emergency care for the critically ill or injured patient, including the latest news on clinical breakthroughs and promising research.
What is Critical Care? Critical care is a type of medicine that is dedicated to evaluating, diagnosing, treating, and managing life-threatening illnesses and injuries. This type of care often requires more advanced technologies than are available in an emergency room or other medical setting.
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Explore the latest in critical care medicine, including management of respiratory failure, sepsis, HAI prevention, end-of-life care, and more.
Critical care medicine specializes in caring for the most seriously ill patients. These patients are best treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) staffed by experienced personnel. Some hospitals maintain separate units for special populations (eg, cardiac, transplant, trauma, surgical, neurologic, pediatric, or neonatal patients).
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Sep 28, 2021 · 1. Introduction. 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 [ 1 ].
Canonical critical care syndromes such as sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) include patients with markedly heterogeneous biology. 1 This, paired with decades of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that were traditionally viewed as “negative,” has stalled progress in improving patient outcomes. 2 However, emerging awareness of sub-phenotypes...
