Emergency Medicine
Subfield
Description: medical specialty concerned with care for patients who require immediate medical attention
Alternate names accident and emergency medicine, emergency care
Topics (children) Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management, Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Emergency and Acute Care Studies, Emergency Medicine Education and Research, Hematological disorders and diagnostics +6 more
Related subfields (siblings) Anatomy, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Biochemistry, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Complementary and alternative medicine +36 more
Field (parent): Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Works count: 521,300
Citations count: 4,934,000
The injury severity score: a method for describing patients with multiple injuries and evaluating emergency care.
1974 · Susan P. Baker, Brian O’Neill, et al. · PubMed
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
2016 · Theo Vos, Christine A. Allen, et al. · The Lancet
Proposals for the Classification of the Acute Leukaemias French‐American‐British (FAB) Co‐operative Group
1976 · John M. Bennett, Daniel Catovsky, et al. · British Journal of Haematology