emergency medicine

Preferred Label : emergency medicine;

MeSH definition : The branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation and initial treatment of urgent and emergent medical problems, such as those caused by accidents, trauma, sudden illness, poisoning, or disasters. Emergency medical care can be provided at the hospital or at sites outside the medical facility.;

MeSH synonym : medicine, emergency;

MeSH annotation : specialty; differentiate from EMERGENCIES, the patient; DF: EMERGENCY MED; specialty; differentiate from EMERGENCIES, the patient;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency medicine;

Details

Origin ID

D004635;

UMLS CUI

C0013964;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Critical care medicine [EDAM topic]
- Emergency department physician (occupation) [SNOMED CT concept]
- emergency medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Emergency Medicine [DeCS]
- Emergency Medicine [NCIt concept]
- Emergency medicine [LOINC method]
- Emergency medicine (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
Metaterm(s)
- emergency medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- emergency medicine [MeSH concept]
See also
- Paramedicine [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Emergency Medicine [NCIt concept]
- Emergency medicine [LOINC method]
- Emergency medicine (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]

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