Tag:healthcare:speciality=emergency
 healthcare:speciality = emergency
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Medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. 
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Medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention.
Facilities providing this speciality are typically referred to as "Accident and Emergency" or "A&E" in the United Kingdom, and "Emergency Department" in the United States.
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healthcare:speciality=emergency (English term) generally refers to a serious medical situation, condition, or emergency that requires medical assistance or treatment.
Description
These cases are usually handled at a "first aid medical station," which is a medical facility that is open permanently or at least outside the regular office hours of general practitioners (nights, weekends, holidays). Different healthcare facilities have different ways of organizing their response to various acute cases: a shared office for all cases or differentiated offices, e.g., an office for sick patients, an accident office, or a traumatology office.
Sometimes these emergency clinics also function as urgent care centers, which are specific to life-threatening medical conditions. These combined medical services are then referred to without further distinction as "Emergency Room," "Emergency," or "Urgent Care," which is sufficient for patient orientation but inaccurate from a professional point of view.
Similar terms
healthcare:speciality=urgent - Urgent admission (fast, priority)