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The main patient area inside the Mobile Medical Unit operated in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own ...
DES MOINES, Iowa — Local emergency rooms are always busy, with something new every day. But with a wave of victims from shootings this last weekend local hospitals had to deal with extra chaos.
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The reorder tone, also known as the fast busy tone, or the congestion tone, or all trunks busy (ATB) tone is an audible call progress tone in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) that is returned to a calling party to indicate that the call cannot be processed through the network.
Welsh ambulance service chiefs have urged the public to "drink sensibly" at New Year to help reduce demand on emergency services that suffered a 340-call backlog on Monday.
A medical surge occurs when "patient volumes challenge or exceed a hospital's servicing capacity"—often but not always tied to high volume of patients in a hospital's emergency room. [1] Medical surges can occur after a mass casualty incident . [ 2 ]
In busy emergency departments with multiple alerts, that’s a fair concern. ... M.D., is an internationally published science and medical writer and a 25-year emergency physician.
Listed below are conditions that constitute a possible medical emergency and may require immediate first aid, emergency room care, surgery, or care by a physician or nurse. Not all medical emergencies are life-threatening; some conditions require medical attention in order to prevent significant and long-lasting effects on physical or mental ...