Michael R Filbin, MD, Clinical Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Updated: Dec 17, 2008 Introduction Background Clinicians often use the terms sepsis and septic shock without a commonly understood definition. In 1992, a consensus conference of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine published the following [...]
Ian S deSouza, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kings County Hospital/SUNY Downstate Medical Centers Che’ Damon Ward, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn Updated: Dec 17, 2008 Introduction Background Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a tachydysrhythmia originating from a ventricular ectopic focus, characterized [...]