27.-31.10.2021 Eusem 2021 Congress (Lisbon)

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Emergency Medicine is a primary specialty established using the knowledge and skills required for the prevention, diagnosis and management of urgent and emergency aspects of illness and injury, affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of undifferentiated physical and behavioral disorders.

This includes organizing the proper medical response for patients looking for urgent medical care.

Time and timing in this setting may be critical either from a medical or from the patient’s point of view.

The practice of Emergency Medicine3 encompasses the in-hospital as well as out-of-hospital triage, resuscitation, initial assessment, telemedicine and the management of undifferentiated urgent and emergency patients until discharge or transfer to the care of another health care professional.

Prevention: also includes injury prevention, preparedness for disaster, as well as public health education.

Management encompasses the local service organization as well as the development of systems to provide EM care.

Primarily hospital-based

This applies to out-of-hospital emergency care, disasters and includes other urgent medical care systems outside hospitals.