Emergency medicine is the medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention.
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20 Facts About Emergency medicine
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Sub-specializations of emergency medicine include; disaster medicine, medical toxicology, point-of-care ultrasonography, critical care medicine, emergency medical services, hyperbaric medicine, sports medicine, palliative care, or aerospace medicine.
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In countries following the Anglo-American model, emergency medicine initially consisted of surgeons, general practitioners, and other generalist physicians.
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Emergency medicine is still evolving in developing countries, and international emergency medicine programs offer hope of improving primary emergency care where resources are limited.
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Field of emergency medicine encompasses care involving the acute care of internal medical and surgical conditions.
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Emergency medicine includes many aspects of acute primary care and shares with family medicine the uniqueness of seeing all patients regardless of age, gender or organ system.
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Practice of emergency medicine is often quite different in rural areas where there are far fewer other specialities and healthcare resources.
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Many of the pioneers of emergency medicine were family physicians and other specialists who saw a need for additional training in emergency care.
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The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine has identified five essential tasks for patient-physician communication: establishing rapport, gathering information, giving information, providing comfort, and collaboration.
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The nature of emergency medicine is such that error will likely always be a substantial risk of emergency care.
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Specialists in Emergency Medicine are required to possess specialist skills in acute illness diagnosis and resuscitation.
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Emergency medicine physicians are responsible for providing immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilisation to adult and pediatric patients in response to acute illness and injury.
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Emergency medicine physicians are therefore more "specialists" since all patients are taken to the emergency department.
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International emergency medicine provides a critical global perspective and hope for improvement in these areas.
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All medical school graduates who want to practice Emergency medicine have to undergo five years of residency training at designated training bases, the first three years of general rotation followed by two more years of speciality-centred training.
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In Germany, emergency medicine is not handled as a specialization, but any licensed physician can acquire an additional qualification in emergency medicine through an 80-hour course monitored by the respective "Arztekammer" .
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However, emergency medicine was only recognized as a separate speciality by the Medical Council of India in July 2009.
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In Saudi Arabia, the Certification of Emergency Medicine takes the 4-year Saudi Board of Emergency Medicine, which the Saudi Council accredits for Health Specialties .
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