This is a special area of medicine that addresses urgent and potentially life-threatening issues with immediate medical care and treatment. With emergency medicine treatment, you receive care for an issue that develops suddenly or rapidly.
Among the lists of emergency are:-
- Bleeding that will not stop.
- Breathing problems – difficulty breathing, shortness of breath.
- Change in mental status – confusion, unusual behavior, difficulty waking.
- Chest pain or pressure.
- Choking.
- Coughing up or vomiting blood.
- Fainting or loss of consciousness.
- Feelings of harming yourself or others.
- Head or spine injury.
- Severe or persistent vomiting.
- Sudden injury due to an accident, burns or smoke inhalation, near-drowning, deep or large wound, or other severe injuries.
- Sudden, severe pain anywhere on the body.
- Sudden dizziness, weakness, or change in vision.
- Swallowing a poisonous substance.
- Severe abdominal pain.
