LP32934-9
Emergency medicine
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Descriptions
Emergency medicine is a branch of medicine that is practiced in a hospital emergency department, in the field (in a modified form - see EMS), and other locations where initial medical treatment of illness takes place. Emergency medicine focuses on diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses and injuries that require immediate care. While not usually providing long-term care, EM physicians and pre-hospital personnel still provide care with the aim of improving long-term patient outcome. In the United States, some people use the emergency department for outpatient care that could be provided at a doctor's office. As a result, much of emergency room care is general practice (coughs, colds, aches, pains). A variant of an Emergency Department is an Urgent Care Center, often staffed by non-Emergency Medicine trained physicians andor nurses, which treats patients who desire or require immediate care, but do not reach the acuity that requires care in an emergency department. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Emergency medicine (Wikipedia)
A branch of medicine concerned with an individual's resuscitation, transportation and care from the point of injury or beginning of illness through the hospital or other emergency treatment facility. Source: National Library of Medicine, MeSH 2006
Basic Part Properties
- Part Name
- Emergency medicine
- Part Display Name
- Emergency medicine
- Part Type
- Method (Describes the method by which the test was performed)
- Created On
- 2003-11-12
- Construct for LOINC Short Name
- Emergency med
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Language Variants Get Info
| Tag | Language | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| nl-NL | Dutch (Netherlands) | spoedeisende hulp |
| it-IT | Italian (Italy) | Medicina d'urgenza Synonyms: Medicina d''emergenza |
| zh-CN | Chinese (China) | 急诊医学 Synonyms: 急救医学; |
| el-GR | Greek (Greece) | Επείγουσα ιατρική Synonyms: Επείγουσα ιατρική |
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