Emergency Department Critical Care

Dr. Yealy is an award winning academic emergency physician with research, teaching and clinical experience in acute critical illness assessment and treatment. He has extensively published and lecture on illness severity assessment, prognosis, and early care for respiratory and airway failure, pneumonia, sepsis, heart failure and pulmonary embolism. Dr. Yealy is an editor or peer reviewer for many scientific journals and grant panels. He currently serves as Chair of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medicine and Clinical and Translational Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania.

Part I: Clinical Syndromes ; Chapter 1: Approach to Undifferentiated Organ Failure/ Shock ("Blue or Bad) (Lillian Emlet) ; Chapter 2: Sepsis and Shock with Infection (Alan Jones and Alan Heffner) ; Chapter 3: Respiratory Failure (Including Parenchymal, Vascular, and Central Causes) (Dave Gaieski and Munish Goyal) ; Chapter 4: Acute Heart Failure ; (Tertius Tuy and William Frank Peacock) ; Chapter 5: Acute MI, Acute Coronary Syndromes, Dysrhythmias, Pacemakers, and AICDs ; (Glen Michael and Robert O'Connor) ; Chapter 6: Acute Kidney Injury in the Emergency Department (John Kellum) ; Chapter 7: Coma and Altered Mental Status (J. Stephen Huff and Robert Stevens) ; Chapter 8: Post-cardiac arrest care (Stephen Trecziak) ; Chapter 9: Intracranial Hemorrhage and Acute ischemic stroke ; (Opeolu Adeoye and Edward Jauch) ; Chapter 10: Management of the Critically Poisoned Patient (Eric Lavonas) ; Chapter 11: Multisystem trauma and burns (Raquel Forsythe) ; Chapter 12: Massive bleeding including GI (Charles Wira and Khoshal Latifzai) ; Part II: Methodology and Procedures ; Chapter 13: Procedural Analgesia and Sedation (Moderate and Deep) (John Burton) ; Chapter 14: Monitoring Technology: Invasive and Non-invasive (Bryant Nguyen) ; Chapter 15: Airway Management (Henry Wang) ; Chapter 16: Ultrasound for shock (Robert Hyde) ; Chapter 17: Blood product and procoagulant therapies (Edward Sloan and Donald Yealy)