Emergency Medicine Essentials: Current Concepts in Acute Care, Trauma, and Critical Emergency Services
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https://doi.org/10.29070/pajv4p78Keywords:
Emergency Medicine, Acute Care, Trauma Management, Critical Care, Emergency Health ServicesAbstract
Over the years, emergency medicine (EM) has developed into a vibrant and specialized field that treats a wide range of patients with urgent medical and surgical needs. There is a pressing need for organized, evidence-based emergency care systems due to the rising incidence of trauma, heart attacks, infectious illnesses, and mass casualty occurrences. With an emphasis on urgent emergency services, trauma response, and acute care management, this article explores the fundamental ideas and contemporary practices of emergency medicine. This research synthesises current protocols, triage systems, trauma care models, and critical care integration within emergency departments using a narrative analytical technique backed by secondary data from worldwide emergency medical literature. The findings emphasize the need of integrating technology, coordinating across disciplines, standardizing therapeutic processes, and conducting assessments quickly in order to improve patient outcomes. Overcrowding, a lack of qualified workers, and unequal access to emergency treatment are some of the new issues brought up in this debate, which is focused on nations with low or medium incomes. Resilient healthcare delivery in the face of escalating public health catastrophes requires improving emergency medicine via policy support, training, and system-level integration, the research says.
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