Acute care medicine patients include acute renal failure, pneumonia, acute pancreatitis, UTI, encephalopathy/cirrhosis, sickle cell pain crisis, chest pain, COPD, asthma acute exacerbation, syncope/collapse, type I diabetes, and ketoacidosis. Typical unit procedures include lab blood draws, point-of-care blood glucose testing, EKGs, peritoneal dialysis, MRI, swallow evaluations, endoscopy/colonoscopy, and 2D echo/venous Doppler.