Emergency medicine, also known as accident and emergency medicine, is the medical specialty concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians care for unscheduled and undifferentiated patients of all ages. As first-line providers, their primary responsibility is to initiate resuscitation and stabilization and to start investigations and interventions to diagnose and treat illnesses in the acute phase. Emergency physicians generally practice in hospital emergency departments, pre-hospital settings via emergency medical services, and intensive care units, but may also work in primary care settings such as urgent care clinics. Sub-specializations of emergency medicine include disaster medicine, medical toxicology, ultrasonography, critical care medicine, hyperbaric medicine, sports medicine, palliative care, or aerospace medicine.
Intensive care medicine, or critical care medicine, is a branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and management of life-threatening conditions that may require sophisticated life support and intensive monitoring.
Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, anaesthesia or anaesthetics is the medical speciality concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. A physician specialised in this field of medicine is called an anesthesiologist, anaesthesiologist or anaesthetist, depending on the country.
The Summerlin Hospital Medical Center is a private, for-profit hospital owned by Universal Health Services and operated by the Valley Health System. It is located in the Summerlin neighborhood of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in the field of anaesthesia, intensive care, pain, and emergency medicine. It was established in 1957 and is the official publication of the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 2.355, ranking it 14th out of 29 journals in the category "Anesthesiology".
Critical Care Medicine is a peer-reviewed monthly medical journal in the field of intensive-care medicine. The journal was established in 1973. It is the official publication of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The journal's editor-in-chief is Timothy G. Buchman.
An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive treatment medicine.
The New Zealand Medical Journal is a peer-reviewed medical journal. It is the official journal of the New Zealand Medical Association. It was established in September 1887 by the New Zealand Branch of the British Medical Association. The present editor-in-chief is Frank Frizelle. The journal is a member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. It has been published online since July 2002. The journal publishes editorials, original articles, case reports, viewpoint, and letters. The full text of articles less than six months old is available only to subscribers and New Zealand Medical Association members. Access is free to articles older than six months and abstracts.
In some Commonwealth countries and Ireland, a medical royal college is a professional body in the form of a Royal College responsible for development of and training in one or more medical specialities.
Anaesthesia is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in anaesthesia, including intensive care, peri-operative medicine, critical care medicine and pain therapy. It is the official journal of the Association of Anaesthetists.
The British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA) is a monthly peer-reviewed international medical journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Royal College of Anaesthetists ; the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland; and the Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists, for all of which it serves as their official journal. The journal covers all aspects of anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, intensive care medicine and pain management. The current editor-in-chief is Hugh C. Hemmings . The BJA was founded in 1923, one year after the first anaesthetic journal was published by the International Anaesthesia Research Society. The first Editor-in-Chief of the journal was H. M. Cohen. He was based in Manchester, UK, but born in New York City, and he edited the journal from 1923 to 1928. Recent Editors-in-Chief include Ravi Mahajan, Charles Reilly and Jennifer Hunter.
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), established in 1970, is an independently incorporated, international, educational and scientific society. Its members are health professionals providing care to critically ill and injured patients. The Society supports research and education, and advocates on issues related to critical care.
Geriatric intensive care unit is a special intensive care unit dedicated to management of critically ill elderly.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to emergency medicine:
The European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) is a Europe-wide medical association that works to promote paediatric and neonatal intensive care standards among health care professionals, notably doctors and nurses in the field.
Intensive Care Medicine is a monthly peer reviewed medical journal covering intensive care or critical care and emergency medicine. It was established in 1975 as the European Journal of Intensive Care Medicine and obtained its current name in 1977. It is the official journal of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care. The editor-in-chief is Giuseppe Citerio. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media.
The Journal of Critical Care is a peer reviewed medical journal which covers intensive care medicine. It is the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and the Society for Complex Acute Illness. The editor-in-chief is Jan Bakker MD PhD. It is published every two months by Elsevier.
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal that covers intensive care treatment of children and newborns. It is the official journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, the Pediatric Intensive Care Society, the Latin American Society of Pediatric Intensive Care, and the Japanese Society of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care. It was established in 2000 and is published 12 times a year by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The editor-in-chief is Patrick M. Kochanek. The journal is published in English with selected abstracts translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
The Annals of Intensive Care is a monthly open access peer-reviewed medical journal covering intensive care medicine. It was established in 2011. The editor-in-chief is Jean-Louis Teboul. It is the official journal of the French Intensive Care Society and is published by Springer Science+Business Media.
