This may have come up before, but I just ran across a site called the
Medical Algorithms Project web page. It claims to have more than 4600
algorithms available as downloadable spreadsheets and documents. As far as
I can tell, everything is free.
Don't know if you'll find it helpful, but you can check it out at:
http://www.medal.org/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stanislava Yalamova" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: What is an Emergency?
> Hello
>
> I am an emergency physician from Bulgaria working at
> the Emergency Medical Center in the city of
> Kyustendil. I am one of the first Bulgarian physicians
> having a specialty in Emergency Medicine.
>
> According to what our instructors (most of them are
> leading physicians in greatesst Sofia hospitals and
> teach medical students and specializing doctors as
> well): a patient in an emergency condition (of any
> kind) is a patient who himself thinks that he is
> having a problem that is an emergency. It doesn't
> matter whether any doctor or other medical
> professional thinks that the present state of this
> patient does not represent an emergency at the moment.
>
> Stanislava Yalamova, M.D.
> --- "Reid, Cliff" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Here's a definition of the specialty
> >
> >
> >
> > DEFINITION OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
> >
> >
> > "Emergency medicine is a field of practice based on
> > the knowledge and skills required for the
> > prevention, diagnosis and management of acute and
> > urgent aspects of illness and injury affecting
> > patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of
> > episodic undifferentiated physical and behavioral
> > disorders; it further encompasses an understanding
> > of the development of prehospital and inhospital
> > emergency medical systems and the skills necessary
> > for this development."
> >
> > International Federation for Emergency Medicine,
> > 1991.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Ryan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 28 August 2003 23:56
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: What is an Emergency?
> >
> >
> > Seeking a definition for 'Emergency'
> >
> > How would list members define an 'Emergency' in the
> > context of what we see
> > in our emergency departments and what we practice ?
> >
> > Dr John Ryan
>
>
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