Downstairs Patients, Upstairs

February 2, 2010 by Scott Weingart, MD FCCM 1 Comment

The Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine with the help of the lifeinthefastlane blog, has taken my Upstairs Care, Downstairs philosophy to its next logical conclusion. I can't believe I did not see this myself.

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Scott Weingart, MD FCCM. Downstairs Patients, Upstairs. EMCrit Blog. Published on February 2, 2010. Accessed on May 15th 2025. Available at [https://emcrit.org/emcrit/downstairsupstairs/ ].

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15 years ago

i know of places in the world where a critical pt who will clearly need the icu get brought up to the icu straight from the moment they roll into the ed… without abc stabilization, without intubation, in a tight elevator, sometimes without a line…. scary…….