Somand David, Zink Brian
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0611, USA.
Acad Emerg Med. 2005 Sep;12(9):879-83. doi: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.04.016.
Through their largely concurrent development, the specialties of emergency medicine and critical care medicine have exerted a great deal of influence on each other. In this article, the authors trace the commonalities that emergency medicine and critical care medicine have shared and report on the historical relationship between the two specialties. As issues between emergency medicine and critical care medicine continue to emerge, the authors hope to inform the current discussion by bringing to light the controversies and questions that have been debated in the past.
