Emergency Medicine

This man may be suffering from burns.

Emergency Medicine is a very wide field, that involves dealing with a whole host of complaints.

There are four main categories of patients you will see:

• Medical emergencies
• General medical or surgical problems
• Minor injuries
• People with nothing wrong with them

Medical Emergencies

There is a whole page on medical emergencies that you should definitely know about.

Common ones in A&E are chest pain is important. So is ECG

Physical Injury

It's quite important to learn about physical injury, as it is a common appearance in A & E.

It is split into four areas: fractures, lacerations, burns and major injuries.

Casualty

If you watch Casualty, you will have a very realistic view of how emergency medicine is conducted in real hospitals. Realistic, apart from the fact that all the nurses and doctors do not actually have affairs with each other, with hospital administrators and with patients on a daily basis, managing to fit that in between their casual sex in elevators, near constant drug abuse, and the fact that they even have the energy after 12 hour shifts to go out drinking all night and arrive back at work still drunk the next day.

And no one is as nice as Charlie in real life.