What’s new in critical illness and injury science? Emergency, critical, and operative care – A contemporary concept in junctional care and research, featuring the integration of operations, care, and compassion for seamless acute care delivery

What's new in critical illness and injury science? Emergency, critical, and operative care -A contemporary concept in junctional care and research, featuring the integration of operations, care, and compassion for seamless acute care deliveryAfter decades of evolution, the field of emergency medicine (EM) now stands at the center of the acute care delivery paradigm.[1,2] Within the contemporary model of EM, patients presenting across a wide spectrum of illness severity are evaluated and diagnosed with optimized accuracy, fine-tuned urgency, and highly targeted expertise.[3][4][5][6] In the high-stakes environment of an emergency department (ED), life-threatening conditions are identified and "intercepted" in the earliest possible stages, and life-saving therapies are initiated.