Emergency Department ICUs Add Value

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
² Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.

Brian T Wessman et al. Crit Care Med. 2022.

. 2022 Aug 1;50(8):1265-1267.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004708. Epub 2022 Oct 26.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
² Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.

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Teeter WA, Tran QK, Haase DJ. Teeter WA, et al. Crit Care Med. 2022 Dec 1;50(12):e816-e817. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005688. Epub 2022 Nov 17. Crit Care Med. 2022. PMID: 36394412 No abstract available.

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