Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Evidence-Informed Strategies for High-Stakes Decisions in Emergency and ICU Settings

von Marielle M. Quarwick, Camille T. Wrenvale, Hollis J. Dovemere

310 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Some clinical decisions can wait for another laboratory result, another consultation, or another round of observation. In emergency and intensive care medicine, many cannot.Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine examines the clinical reasoning required when deterioration is rapid, information is incomplete, and several problems may demand attention at once. Its focus is the point at which assessment must become action: recognizing instability, deciding what requires immediate intervention, judging response, and determining when the current strategy is no longer enough.The book connects two environments that are often taught separately but function as a continuum in real patient care. Emergency medicine begins the work of rapid recognition, stabilization, and disposition. Intensive care extends that work through close physiologic surveillance, repeated reassessment, organ support, and adjustment of treatment as the patient's condition evolves. Understanding the relationship between those stages is essential when decisions made in the first minutes influence the next several hours or days.Rather than approaching acute illness as a collection of isolated facts, the text emphasizes how clinicians organize uncertainty. It develops the thinking behind prioritization, competing risks, time-sensitive intervention, escalation and de-escalation, reassessment after treatment, and communication when responsibility moves between teams and settings.This approach makes the book relevant to medical students entering acute-care rotations, residents developing greater independence, physicians working with unstable patients, and other healthcare professionals who need a structured understanding of emergency and intensive-care decision making.The central question throughout is not simply "What treatment is available?" but "What matters most at this moment, what evidence should change the plan, and what must happen next?" That perspective gives the book its place as a practical clinical resource for high-acuity medicine.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174761155
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published