The scope of the Emergency and Critical Care Group includes many generic topics in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. It covers the fundamental concepts and practice of care of many potentially life-threatening conditions, including non-trauma resuscitation. This encompasses the care of critically ill people in intensive care units, hospital emergency departments, and those treated by pre-hospital emergency medical services (apart from those who have been injured).
Our topics are:
- Cardiac arrest
- Septic Shock management
- Haemodynamic management including vascular access, fluids, vasopressors
- Respiratory management including mechanical ventilation
- Positioning of critically ill individuals
- Coagulation and bleed management
- Nutrition and metabolic management of the critically ill
- Rehabilitation, mobilisation and exercise of the critically ill
- Delirium prevention and management
- Procedural sedation
- High altitude illness
- Hyperbaric therapy
- Anaphylaxis