Ebook Info
- Published: 2011
- Number of pages:
- Format: PDF
- File Size: 13.06 MB
- Authors: David A. Farcy, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FCCM
Description
Critical Care Emergency Medicine is destined to become the standard reference for all clinicians who wish to understand the overlap between emergency medicine and critical care. Written by experienced emergency physicians and intensivists, the book is unique in incorporating both perspectives into the practice of emergency medicine and critical care.
Reviews
Although we have 3 ICUs where I work, it seems like we always have patients waiting for an ICU bed being held in the ED. I have been doing a series of classes on critical care patients in the ED and found really good information in this book on TBI (which we ship out as a rule but still have to stabilize) and things like therapeutic hypothermia which we have been doing for several years. If you are an RN thinking it might be too advanced, trust me, it is not. The info is current and pertinent to most EDs and can help an RN understand some of the whys without being too academic. It has just the right info needed to assess a critical ED patient and know what needs to be monitored in the hyperacute phase of illness or injury. It is not about doing procedures but about what the current care is for the patient and what the ED role is in managing the critical patient. As an example, when I graduated from nursing school we thought asthma was primarily influenced by psychosocial factors and I can still remember being told by the pedi residents to ‘talk him out of it” when someone was having severe difficulty. Yeah, right! The table on formal evaluation of asthma exacerbation (page 103) would have come in handy had it existed back then! The book is not overloaded with illustrations but the tables and photos, etc., are all pertinent. The book is very up to date with the latest evidence which is nice to have since we became a teaching facility where I now work. It is good to have that info to give to the RNs that wonder why we no longer do things a certain way. If you are a physician or midlevel I think you will also find some great updated info on taking care of those really sick patients that show up so often.
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