Topics: Medical Specialties : Emergency Medicine
Bookmark or ShareEmergency Medicine is the medical specialty that focuses on the immediate decision making and action necessaryto prevent death or any further disability. It is primarily hospital emergency department based, but with extensivepre-hospital responsibilities for emergency medical systems. The emergency physician provides immediate initial recognition, evaluation, care and disposition of a generallyundifferentiated population of patients in response to acute illness and injury. The care provided by the emergencyphysician is episodic in nature and involves a full spectrum of physical and behavioral conditions. from American Board of Emergency Medicine,
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