emergency medicine
noun
: a medical specialty concerned with the care and treatment of acutely ill or injured patients who need immediate medical attention
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Kelsey Johnson, 32, an emergency medicine resident at the University of Maryland was working the night shift when the bridge fell.
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Peter Nicholas, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
Willis took over, and with each compression a doctor trained in emergency medicine was making one of the most difficult calculations in the field of obstetrics: when to turn from working on a mother to working on her baby.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
An increase in residue or white or greenish build-up around your faucet is another sign of hard water, Arie Francis, MD, an emergency medicine physician who specializes in medical toxicology and emergency medicine at Stony Brook Medicine, told Verywell.
—Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 14 Mar. 2024
In addition, California requires county offices of education to buy supplies of the emergency medicine for middle schools, junior highs, high schools and adult schools.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
This learning algorithm’s true value, explained Dr. Gabriel Wardi, an emergency medicine and sepsis specialist and one of the paper’s co-authors, is in the gray area between sepsis and many other conditions that can mimic the condition.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
The finding that less frequent drug use has health benefits intrinsically makes sense, said Dr. Lewis Nelson, who heads emergency medicine and medical toxicology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
The crew includes research scientist Kelly Haston, structural engineer Ross Brockwell, emergency medicine physician Nathan Jones and microbiologist Anca Selariu.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
Health care workers want to help, but hospitals can’t keep providing this level of uncompensated care, let alone meet migrant patients’ full needs, said Dr. Richard Zane, an emergency medicine physician and UCHealth’s chief innovation officer.
—Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2024
Peter Nicholas, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
Willis took over, and with each compression a doctor trained in emergency medicine was making one of the most difficult calculations in the field of obstetrics: when to turn from working on a mother to working on her baby.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
An increase in residue or white or greenish build-up around your faucet is another sign of hard water, Arie Francis, MD, an emergency medicine physician who specializes in medical toxicology and emergency medicine at Stony Brook Medicine, told Verywell.
—Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 14 Mar. 2024
In addition, California requires county offices of education to buy supplies of the emergency medicine for middle schools, junior highs, high schools and adult schools.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
This learning algorithm’s true value, explained Dr. Gabriel Wardi, an emergency medicine and sepsis specialist and one of the paper’s co-authors, is in the gray area between sepsis and many other conditions that can mimic the condition.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
The finding that less frequent drug use has health benefits intrinsically makes sense, said Dr. Lewis Nelson, who heads emergency medicine and medical toxicology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
The crew includes research scientist Kelly Haston, structural engineer Ross Brockwell, emergency medicine physician Nathan Jones and microbiologist Anca Selariu.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
Health care workers want to help, but hospitals can’t keep providing this level of uncompensated care, let alone meet migrant patients’ full needs, said Dr. Richard Zane, an emergency medicine physician and UCHealth’s chief innovation officer.
—Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2024
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