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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): Médecine des urgences
Médecine urgentiste
Oxylogie
Oxyologie
Urgentologie
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 économie
ED enseignement et éducation
ES éthique
HI histoire
IS instrumentation
LJ législation et jurisprudence
MT méthodes
OG organisation et administration
SN statistiques et données numériques
ST normes
TD tendances
DeCS ID: 4710
Unique ID: D004635
NLM Classification: WB 105
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1977/01/01
Date of Entry: 1976/04/27
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Médecine d'urgence - Preferred
Concept UI M0007275
Preferred term Médecine d'urgence
Entry term(s) Médecine des urgences
Médecine urgentiste
Oxylogie
Oxyologie
Urgentologie



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