Emergency Department Critical Care

“This book contains excellent overviews of the most commonly encountered presentations, procedures, and methods regarding critical care needs of patients in the emergency department. Providing increased depth of coverage may be helpful in future editions. Nonetheless, the authors do an excellent job of succinctly summarizing a large body of knowledge.” – DOODY’S

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 lectured 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.