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Health Occupations > Medicine > Emergency Medicine

Preferred term

Emergency Medicine  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Medicine, Emergency

Note

  • specialty; differentiate from EMERGENCIES, the patient

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 77

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004635

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