emergency room
noun
: a hospital room or area staffed and equipped for the reception and treatment of persons requiring immediate medical care
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Reynolds and colleagues studied the problem by looking at more than 29 million emergency room visits by people under 55 reporting chest pain.
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Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
Times writer Jack Dolan pored over state hospital data and uncovered some troubling statistics in his recent piece on ski accidents: In California, over 6,000 skiers and snowboarders went to the emergency room in 2022, a 50% increase from 2016.
—Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Seton Medical Center’s Coastside emergency room in Moss Beach is set to temporarily close for nine months beginning Monday, April 1.
—Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
England assigned Amari's grandparents to trick-or-treat duty with his three older siblings and headed to the local emergency room.
—CBS News, 29 Mar. 2024
The girl was taken to the Hilo Medical Center’s emergency room with burn marks, dehydration, malnutrition and fractured bones, officials said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 26 Mar. 2024
Professor John McDonough at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health said people with insurance are more likely to go to their regular doctor instead of the emergency room.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
Estrada took him to the emergency room before he was transferred to a children’s hospital in Aurora that day, the complaint says.
—Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024
About 23,000 emergency room visits annually are linked to use of dietary supplements.
—Claudia Lopez Lloreda, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
Times writer Jack Dolan pored over state hospital data and uncovered some troubling statistics in his recent piece on ski accidents: In California, over 6,000 skiers and snowboarders went to the emergency room in 2022, a 50% increase from 2016.
—Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Seton Medical Center’s Coastside emergency room in Moss Beach is set to temporarily close for nine months beginning Monday, April 1.
—Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
England assigned Amari's grandparents to trick-or-treat duty with his three older siblings and headed to the local emergency room.
—CBS News, 29 Mar. 2024
The girl was taken to the Hilo Medical Center’s emergency room with burn marks, dehydration, malnutrition and fractured bones, officials said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 26 Mar. 2024
Professor John McDonough at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health said people with insurance are more likely to go to their regular doctor instead of the emergency room.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
Estrada took him to the emergency room before he was transferred to a children’s hospital in Aurora that day, the complaint says.
—Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024
About 23,000 emergency room visits annually are linked to use of dietary supplements.
—Claudia Lopez Lloreda, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
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