Past, Present, and Future of Emergency Radiology

In the past 2 decades, emergency radiology has emerged as since 1990. ASER publishes the journal Emergency Radian important subspecialty of medicine. Although relatively new, the growth of this subspecialty has been rapid and parallels the growth of the specialty of emergency medicine. As a subspecialty of radiology, emergency radiology is defined by the imaging and imaging management of patients who are acutely ill and injured. The primary responsibility of the emergency radiologist is not only the imaging of patients in the emergency department (ED) at all times but also off-hours emergency imaging of all patients in the medical centre. The founding of the major professional societies of emergency medicine and emergency radiology also occurred in parallel. Aiming to improve the quality of emergency care, emergency physicians founded the American College of Emergency Physicians in 1968 with the goal ‘‘to educate and train physicians in emergency medicine.’’ The first emergency medicine residency was created in 1970, and the specialty was recognized as the 23rd medical specialty in 1979 with the first board examination in 1980. Currently, the American College of Emergency Physicians represents more than 28,000 physicians and publishes the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine. Radiologists who wished to improve the imaging care of emergency patients founded The American Society of Emergency Radiology (ASER) in 1988. The mission of ASER is to ‘‘advance the quality of diagnosis and treatment of acutely ill or injured patients by means of medical imaging and to enhance teaching and research in emergency radiology.’’ ASER membership comprises more than 700 national and international members, and the society has hosted annual scientific and educational meetings on emergency radiology