emergency medicine
Noun
Meaning
the branch of medicine concerned with the prompt diagnosis and treatment of injuries or trauma or sudden illness
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Cabillon was the Head Nurse at Kings County Department of Emergency Medicine in Brooklyn, which has overtaken Queens as the epicenter of the novel coronavirus in the United States today.
Dr. Adler will also join a panel discussion about the changing market forces in Emergency Medicine.
Emergency medicine, for example, is concentrated in the MMC Veldhoven branch and the Catharina Hospital, the MMC Eindhoven branch has no emergency department.
“We are well prepared today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,” said Dr. Uwe Janssens, who heads Germany’s Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine described the hope that this could help manage demand as “wishful thinking”.
Emergency medicine as an independent medical specialty is relatively young.