title: The influence of critical care medicine on the development of the specialty of emergency medicine: a historical perspective.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0611, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Somand
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zink
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000266:history*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history; D013044:Specialty Boards / Q000266:history; D014481:United States