Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Emergency vs Critical Care

Emergency Care

Emergency care, with respect to trauma or critical patients, is the recognition of the critical condition, then appropriate stabilization and initial management of these issues. Emergency care gets the patient who is almost dying to 'in critical condition', by correcting the immediate problems, and and managing it.

Emergency care deals with Disaster management (major role) primarily, and have to face a wide variety of patients with varied problems in an uncontrolled environment. Emergency care is confined to short term management of the patient's condition.

Critical Care 

Critical care is the long term management of these patients after they leave the Emergency care.

Critical care takes the patient in critical condition and gets them into stable condition where they can be managed on the general medical floor. They do this by taking hold of certain physiologic parameters and managing it. They also manage the life threatening conditions which take days to treat.

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