Yet every Sunday we sinners go to that emergency room to receive first aid, and we leave unmindful that the man who ministered to us is a human being who suffers, too.

Mental health triage may be used in an emergency room to evaluate the degree of risk and prioritize treatment.

In Maryland any person may request, via an Emergency Evaluation form, that another individual be evaluated against their will by an emergency room physician for involuntary admission.

A licensed physician, psychologist, social worker, or nurse practitioner who has examined the patient or a police officer may bring a potential patient to the emergency room for forced evaluation without approval from a judge.

The Sparrow Tower was finished January 2008 and includes but is not limited to: a dedicated pediatric emergency room ( the only one in the region ), the largest adult emergency room in the region, state-of-the-art operating rooms, a rooftop helipad, oncology center, heart and vascular center and orthopedic department.

For example, the use of the fluoroquinolones had increased threefold in an emergency room environment in the United States between 1995 and 2002, while the use of safer alternatives, such as macrolides, declined significantly.

Heydrich was first placed in the driver's cab, but after complaining that the truck's movement was causing him pain, he was placed in the back of the truck, on his stomach, and taken to the emergency room at Na Bulovce Hospital.

Nevertheless, approximately one in five emergency room admissions for poisoning in Bogotá, Colombia have been attributed to scopolamine.

Dr. McKay's case review in the Annals of Emergency Medicine noted 41 Segway injuries between April 2005 and November 2008 among GWU emergency room patients.

This article deals with the concept of triage as it occurs in medical emergencies, including the prehospital setting, disasters, and during emergency room treatment.

** Travis Lane Stork, American emergency room physician and television personality

The crisis stabilization unit is in effect an emergency room for psychiatry, frequently dealing with suicidal, violent, or otherwise critical individuals.

Part of an ongoing capital campaign, the Boies ' money is being used to build the hospital's new emergency room.

However, the number of emergency room clinics, or emergency rooms not attached to a traditional hospital, have increased, as they are generally more efficient and cost less to operate than a traditional hospital-based emergency room.

A significant portion of emergency room visits are considered not emergencies as defined by EMTALA, and are therefore not covered.

# The emergency room ( or other better equipped units within the hospital ) must treat an individual with an EMC until the condition is resolved or stabilized and the patient is able to provide self-care following discharge, or if unable, can receive needed continual care.

Similarly, hospital emergency codes often incorporate colors ( such as the widely used " Code Blue " indicating a cardiac arrest ), although they may also include numbers, and may not conform to a uniform standard.

Peter Barlow married Leanne Battersby in an emergency hospital ceremony, shortly before going into cardiac arrest, although he later rallied and made a slow recovery.

However most large power grids also use diesel generators, originally provided as emergency back up for a specific facility such as a hospital, to feed power into the grid during certain circumstances.

On the night of July 31, 1853, doctors at the local hospital needed to perform an emergency operation, virtually impossible by candlelight.

In addition, 4, 500 deliveries are performed at Sparrow Hospital annually, rehabilitation, and emergency treatment is more than any other hospital in mid-Michigan.

The boy is rushed to the nearest hospital where he is prepared for emergency surgery.

Adverse effects of fluoroquinolones can lead to patients attending hospital emergency rooms.

In 2006, Aniston directed a hospital emergency room-set short film called Room 10, starring Robin Wright Penn and Kris Kristofferson as part of Glamours Reel Moments film series.

Example: a hospital emergency department and an ambulance dispatch center.

Participating hospitals may only transfer or discharge patients needing emergency treatment under their own informed consent, after stabilization, or when their condition requires transfer to a hospital better equipped to administer the treatment.

The U. S. government defines an emergency department as " a specially equipped and staffed area of the hospital used a significant portion of the time for initial evaluation and treatment of outpatients for emergency medical conditions.

The hospital is allowed to determine that there is no emergency, using their normal screening procedure, and then refuse EMTALA treatment.

If a patient is already in the hospital for another reason, and develops an emergency condition, EMTALA similarly does not apply.

EMTALA does not preclude the hospital from attempting to bill a patient for their care once the emergency care has been delivered.

During World War II, Slough experienced a series of air raids, mostly in October 1940 ( the largest number of people, five, dying as a result of one on the 13th ), and an emergency hospital treating casualties from London was set up in Slough.

In recent years, the hospital has experienced severe funding difficulties that nearly led to a reduction or elimination of emergency room services.

Respiratory Therapists often are in charge of initiating and managing life support for people in intensive care units and emergency departments, stabilizing and monitoring high risk patients being moved from hospital to hospital by air or ground ambulance, and administering inhaled drugs and medical gases such as asthma medication, oxygen, and anaesthetic gases.

* Trauma center, a hospital equipped to provide comprehensive emergency medical services to patients suffering traumatic injuries

( Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment ) is a simple triage system that can be performed by lightly trained lay and emergency personnel in emergencies.

The paramedic triage system was moved to the city's only remaining adult emergency department, located at the New Halifax Infirmary.

Most emergency departments have a dedicated area for this process to take place, and may have staff dedicated to performing nothing but a triage role.

However, some patients may complete their treatment at the triage stage, for instance if the condition is very minor and can be treated quickly, if only advice is required, or if the emergency department is not a suitable point of care for the patient.

The emergency room is staffed by two physicians as well as two physician assistants and a hospitalist in triage.

* Emergency Severity Index, a triage algorithm for the hospital emergency department

Dr. Joseph Waeckerle, former chief of Kansas City's emergency medical system, directed the rescue effort establishing a makeshift morgue in a ground floor exhibition area, using the hotel's taxicab driveway as a triage area and helping to organize the wounded by greatest need for medical care.

When a patient is brought into the emergency department, he or she is usually sent to triage first.

The patient may be triaged by an emergency physician, a paramedic, or a nurse ; in the United States, triage is usually performed by a registered nurse.

* in case of massive arrival at the emergency department, a strict triage is organized at the entrance of the hospital under the charge of a sorting physician ; it is performed in a big room that is different from the usual emergency entrance and from the reception for the relatives and the press ;

The school shut down and became a triage and command and control center for those authorities who responded to the emergency posed by the crash, culminating in the utilization of the gymnasium as a makeshift morgue.

A common application of telenursing is also used by call centers operated by managed care organizations, which are staffed by registered nurses who act as case managers or perform patient triage, information and counseling as a means of regulating patient access and flow and decrease the use of emergency rooms.

In view of these facts, the Safety Board believes that all emergency response organizations should review their emergency plans to include contingencies for applying cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) techniques as soon as a sufficient number of trained personnel arrive to perform CPR, even during mass casualty / triage incidents, regardless of whether vital signs are present, especially if cold-water immersion / near drowning is involved and where traumatic injuries do not indicate death.

On September 2, an emergency triage center was set up at the airport.