Emergency Medicine in the US and the US model Emergency Medicine in Japan

Emergency medicine in Japan.

There have been few reports published in English on emergency medicine (EM) in Japan; the main reason for this is that the concept of EM was different in Japan from that in western countries. In the 1960s, legislation was passed in Japan that implemented emergency medical services, and emergency hospitals were designated by the government. There were no emergency medicine specialists, and so su...

Cardiac enzyme in emergency medicine

Objective: Acute chest pain is an important and frequently occurring symptom in patients. Chest pain is often a sign of ischemic heart disease. Chest pain due to suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is responsible for a large and ijncreasing number of hospital attendances and admissions. Current practice for suspected ACS involves troponin testing 10–12 hours after symptom o...

Development of the specialty of emergency medicine in Israel: comparison with the UK and US models.

OBJECTIVES To describe the development of emergency medicine (EM) in Israel and review the specific problems faced by the discipline and describe the solutions that were found. METHODS A comprehensive literature search was conducted for data on development of EM in the UK and in North America, and the personal knowledge of two of the authors (PH and YW) was used in preparing the article. RE...

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?

Emergency medicine and critical care medicine: the collaborative model.

Historiquement, la médecine d’urgence et la médecine de réanimation sont perçues comme deux disciplines distinctes. Selon le modèle traditionnel, le département d’urgence est responsable d’une proportion importante d’hospitalisations aux soins intensifs et les soins du patient passent de l’urgentologue à l’urgence au spécialiste en réanimation aux soins intensifs. Mais une analyse de définition...