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Don’t
Give Up
The Essence of
Critical Care
What is
Critical Care?
Not the job of an
Emergency Physician
Not the job of the
Intensivist
Then whose
job is it?
Great, so
Upstairs Care,
Downstairs
Upstairs care, Upstairs
Upstairs care
everywhere?
Words
Without a name, an
IDEAdoesn’t
exist
Critical Care
Resuscitation
NSFW
Resuscitation
Resuscitationist
+
Resuscitationist=
Obsessive
Compulsive
Cowboy/girl
Emergency
Medicine
is moving in the opposite
direction
Resuscitationist
Don’t say you are an
Emergency Physician
Say, I’m an Emergency
Physician
and a Resuscitationist
New
Motto
Maximally
Aggressive
Care
always!
Maximally
Aggressive
Curative
Care
Maximally
Aggressive
Palliative
Care
But it is more than
words…
Stories
Emergency
ICU
“It had to happen…”
“In my mind, it had
already happened”
Emergency
“There was
Unfinished Business”
Triple A Shot
Newman
Shreves
ICU
“This Girl is not Going
to Die”
Scalea
From Thomas Scalea, MD
From Thomas Scalea, MD
People are the Essence
of Critical Care!
Not just
Emergency
&
Intensivists
Medics
Nursing
What is the essence of
Critical Care?
Peter Rosen
Amuse
Themselves?
Critical Care
is
taking care of sick
patients
Anyone who does that…
We are
Critical
We are so lucky!
What is
Critical Care?
We are
Critical
Welcome to
SMACC 2013
Scott Weingart: The Essence of Critical Care: Upstairs Care, Anywhere!

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