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 lecture 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.

Opeolu Adeoye
Departments of Emergency Medicine and Neurosurgery
Division of Neurocritical Care
UC Neuroscience Institute, University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

John Burton, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Carilion Clinic
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Roanoke, VA

Clifton W. Callaway, MD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Jestin Carlson, MD University of Pittsburgh
Lily Emlet, MD

Raquel Forsythe, MD )


Dave Gaieski, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Clinical Director, Center for Resuscitation Science
34th and Spruce Streets; Ground Ravdin
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Munish Goyal, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Georgetown University
Washington Hospital Centers

Director, Emergency Critical Care


Alan C. Heffner, MD
Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Pulmonary and Critical Care Consultants
Department of Internal Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, NC

Assistant Clinical Professor
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

J. Stephen Huff
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine and Neurology
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
Charlottesville, Virginia

Robert Hyde, MD ( )

Edward C. Jauch
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine &
Department of Neurosciences
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Alan Jones, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Research
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS

John Kellum, MD
Professor and Vice-Chair
Department of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Khoshal Latifzai, MD
PGY-3 Resident
Department of Emergency Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Eric Lavonas, MD
Associate Director, Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center,
Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, Colorado

Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine,
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado

Glen E. Michael
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Bryant Nguyen, MD
Director, Emergency Critical Care
Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine and
Department of Medicine, Critical Care
Loma Linda University

Robert E. O'Connor, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA

Frank Peacock, MD
Professor, Emergency Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Edward P. Sloan
Professor
Research Development and Residency Research Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL


Robert D. Stevens, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine,
Neurology, Neurosurgery, Radiology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD


Steve Trecziak, MD
Cooper University Hospital
One Cooper Plaza, D363
Camden, NJ

Tertius Tuy
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Singapore, Singapore

Henry E. Wang, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Charles Wira, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT


Donald M. Yealy, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

"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