Open AccessSetting up and functioning of an Emergency Medicine Department: Lessons learned from a preliminary study
Author(s) -
K Asish,
Varun Suresh
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.176273
Subject(s) - medicine , referral , preparedness , medical emergency , tertiary care , focus group , nursing , medical education , emergency medicine , marketing , political science , law , business
Tertiary care teaching hospitals remain referral centres for victims of trauma and mass casualty. Often specialists from various disciplines manage these crowded casualty areas. These age old casualty areas are being replaced, throughout the country by Emergency Medicine Departments (EMDs), presumed to be better planned to confront a crisis. We aimed to gather basic data contributive in setting up of an EMD at a tertiary care teaching hospital from the lessons learned from functioning existent systems.