How Emergency Rooms Work

Emergency Room Patients

One of the most amazing aspects of emergency medicine is the huge range of conditions that arrive on a daily basis. No other speciality in medicine sees the variety of conditions that an emergency room physician sees in a typical week. Some of the conditions that bring people to the emergency room include:

Car accidents
Sports injuries
Broken bones and cuts from accidents and falls
Burns
Uncontrolled bleeding
Heart attacks, chest pain
Difficulty breathing, asthma attacks, pneumonia
Strokes, loss of function and/or numbness in arms or legs
Loss of vision, hearing
Unconsciousness
Confusion, altered level of consciousness, fainting
Suicidal or homicidal thoughts
Overdoses
Severe abdominal pain, persistent vomiting
Food poisoning
Blood when vomiting, coughing, urinating, or in bowel movements
Severe allergic reactions from insect bites, foods or medications
Complications from diseases, high fevers