Table of Contents

1. The Emergency Department Intensivist

2. The Difficult Airway

3. The Failed Airway

4. Mechanical Ventilation

5. Weaning and Extubation

6. Noninvasive Ventilation

7. ECMO

8. Acute Respiratory Failure

9. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

10. Severe Asthma and COPD

11. Pulmonary Embolism

12. Hemodynamic and Perfusion Monitoring

13. Acute Coronary Syndrome

14. Hypertensive Crisis

15. Post Cardiac Arrest Managment

16. Vasopressors and Inotropes

17. Management after Cardiac Surgery

18. Pericardial Disease

19. GI Bleed

20. Acute Liver Failure

21. Acid-Base Disorders

22. Electrolyte Disorders

23. Acute Renal Failure

24. Altered Mental Status

26. Intracranial Hypertension

27. Stroke

28. Intracranial Hemorrhage

29. Traumatic Brain/Spinal Injury

30. Tranfusions

31. Deep Venous Thrombosis

32. Hyperglycemic Emergency

33. Glucose Management

34. Approach to Fever

35. Antimicrobial Use

36. Sepsis and Septic Shock

37. Nosocomial and Health Care-Associated Pneumonia

38. Infectious Endocarditis

39. Clostridium Difficile Infection

40. Poisoning

41. Acetominophen Overdose

42. Salicylate Overdose

43. CO Poisoning

44. Point of Care Echocardiography

45. Ultrasound Guided Procedures

46. Shock Classification

47. Fluid Management

48. Nutritional Support

49. Percutaneous Tracheostomy

50. Therapeutic Hypothermia

51. Pediatric Considerations

52. Transportation

53. End of Life Care

About the Author

David Farcy, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FCCM (Miami Beach, FL) is Chair of Emergency Medicine, Director of Emergency Medicine Critical Care, Medical Director of the Surgical Intensivist, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida. Michael C. Chiu, MD, FACS (Baltimore, MD) Associate Professor of Surgery, Medical Director, Surgical ICU, Program Director, Surgical Critical Care and EM Critical Care, University of Maryland Medical System, Adam Cowley Shock Trauma Center. John Marshall, MD (Brooklyn, NY) Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center. Tiffany Osborn, MD (St Louis, MO) Associate Professor, Surgery Acute and Critical Care Surgery, Washington University.