Primary emergency care for health care providers Edition: 6

Emergency Medicine (EM) is a medical speciality that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of urgent illnesses and injuries. What makes this discipline unique is the reversal of the usual medical consultation – emergency clinicians often start life-saving treatment before they get the full history and examination. Interventions that happen in the critical minutes of patient care in a medical emergency have the potential to change the course of a patient’s life, with the efficient practice of EM ensuring a seamless transition of care from the scene of an accident or medical emergency to the ICU bed.