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Review What is Emergency Medicine and Its Agenda for Future.
Byung Soo Do, Sam Beom Lee
Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science 2002;19(2):92-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12701/yujm.2002.19.2.92
Published online: December 31, 2002
Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea.
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Emergency medicine(EM) is the specialty of evaluating, stabilizing and initiating treatment for patients with life or limb-threatening illnesses or injuries. Techniques unique to the specialty of EM are the triage systems, quick stabilization methods, and emergency surgery procedures. The field of EM encompasses areas such as emergency department management, disaster planning and management, the management of emergency medical service(EMS) systems, research into such areas as brain and heart resuscitation, trauma and disaster management, survival medicine, and environmental emergencies(cold and heat injuries, poisioning, decompression sickness and barotrauma). Today, in addition to providing emergency care, the emergency specialists have moral and legal obligations to assess and report probable cases of child and spouse abuse, sexual assault, and alcohol and drug abuse. Future, the EM should provide surveillance, identification, intervention, and evaluation of injury and disease, therefore EM will remain as a key component of evolving community health care system.

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