Emergency physicians and pre-hospital personnel are trained to intervene rapidly in critical situations. In the absence of information to the contrary, a patient's desire to be resuscitated must be assumedespecially when withholding life-sustaining procedures may result in death.
There is little debate that tidal volume (VT) should be lowered in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
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This study examined outcomes in 50,322 patients admitted to the emergency department and later transferred to the ICU during the period from 2000-2003.
Upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage results in 250,000 hospitalizations and between 15,000 and 30,000 deaths per year in the United States.
