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Approach to undifferentiated organ failure/shock ("blue or bad") / Lily Emlet -- Sepsis and shock with infection / Alan Jones -- Respiratory failure (including parenchymal, vascular, and central causes) / Dave Gaieski -- Acute heart failure / Frank Peacock -- Acute MI, acute coronary syndromes, dysrhythmias, pacemakers, and aicds / Robert O'Connor -- Acute kidney injury in the emergency department / John Kellum -- Coma and altered mental status / J. Stephen Huff -- Post-cardiac arrest care / Steve Trecziak -- Intracranial hemorrhage and acute ischemic stroke / Ed Jauch -- Management of the critically poisoned patient / Eric Lavonas -- Multisystem trauma and burns / Raquel Forsythe -- Massive bleeding including GI / Charles Wira -- Procedural analgesia and sedation : moderate and deep / John Burton -- Monitoring technology : invasive and non-invasive / Bryant Nguyen -- Airway management / Henry Wang -- Ultrasound for shock / Robert Hyde -- Blood product and procoagulant therapies / Ed Sloan.