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Parent topics
- Emergency medicine [r]: Emergency medicine is both a specific medical specialty dealing with the proper care of patients with unexpected injuries or disase, but also the provision of entire systems for such care, beginning with minimal bystander assistance, through field medicine, emergency rooms and trauma centers, and movement to specialized facilities such as burn units and interventiomal neuroradiology [e]
Subtopics
- Advanced trauma life support [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Triage [r]: The process of sorting victims of disease or violence, so the greatest number can be helped with the available resources, and treatment prioritized to have the best chance of preserving life. [e]
Other related topics
- Defibrillation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Incident Command System [r]: An increasingly worldwide set of procedures and doctrines for operational response to emergencies requiring response from different organizations, ranging from multiple units of the same local fire department or police force, to major disasters covering large regions and requiring national or international resources [e]
- Permissive hypotension [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shock [r]: Add brief definition or description
