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Descriptor English: Emergency Medicine
Descriptor Spanish: Medicina de Emergencia
Descriptor medicina de urgencias
Entry term(s) medicina de emergencias
Scope note: Rama de la medicina que se ocupa de la valoración y tratamiento inicial de los problemas médicos urgentes y de las emergencias, como son los causados en accidentes, traumatismos, enfermedades repentinas, intoxicaciones o desastres. La atención médica de urgencia puede prestarse en el hospital o en lugares fuera de instalaciones médicas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Medicina de Emergência
Descriptor French: Médecine d'urgence
Entry term(s): Medicine, Emergency
Tree number(s): H02.403.250
SP8.285.142
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004635
Scope note: The branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation and initial treatment of urgent and emergent medical problems, such as those caused by accidents, trauma, sudden illness, poisoning, or disasters. Emergency medical care can be provided at the hospital or at sites outside the medical facility.
Annotation: specialty; differentiate from EMERGENCIES, the patient; DF: EMERGENCY MED
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 77
History Note: 77
Entry Version: EMERGENCY MED
DeCS ID: 4710
Unique ID: D004635
NLM Classification: WB 105
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Date Established: 1977/01/01
Date of Entry: 1976/04/27
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Emergency Medicine - Preferred
Concept UI M0007275
Scope note The branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation and initial treatment of urgent and emergent medical problems, such as those caused by accidents, trauma, sudden illness, poisoning, or disasters. Emergency medical care can be provided at the hospital or at sites outside the medical facility.
Preferred term Emergency Medicine
Entry term(s) Medicine, Emergency



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