Disciplines and Occupations

Emergency Medicine

The branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation and initial treatment of urgent and emergent medical problems, such as those caused by accidents, trauma, sudden illness, poisoning, or disasters. Emergency medical care can be provided at the hospital or at sites outside the medical facility.

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Abstract

The branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation and initial treatment of urgent and emergent medical problems, such as those caused by accidents, trauma, sudden illness, poisoning, or disasters. Emergency medical care can be provided at the hospital or at sites outside the medical facility.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Medicine, Emergency

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specialty; differentiate from EMERGENCIES, the patient

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77

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  1. H02w.403w.250w

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WB 105

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Emergency Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004635. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004635
  2. Emergency Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medicine
  3. Emergency Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2861470