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An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate threat to human life or serious damage to property or environment. A false report of an emergency is usually a crime. Emergency may also refer to:

In profession:

  • Emergency medical technician, emergency responder trained to provide emergency medical services to the critically ill and injured
  • Emergency physician, physician who works at an emergency department to care for acutely ill patients
  • Firefighter, who is trained and equipped to provide emergency medical services

In medicine:

  • Emergency department, hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries
  • Emergency medical services, prehospital care
  • Emergency medicine, branch of medicine that is practiced in a hospital emergency department
  • Medical emergency, injury or illness that poses an immediate threat to a person's health or life which requires help from a doctor or hospital, or other situation in which a person requires rescue

In organisations:

In journalism:

In education:

  • Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, institution whose prime objective is the training and examination of emergency physicians for Australia and New Zealand
  • American College of Emergency Physicians, the largest organization of emergency physicians in the United States
  • College of Emergency Medicine, organisation of emergency physicians in the United Kingdom which sets standards of training and administers examinations for emergency physicians in the United Kingdom and Ireland
  • [[Fellow of American College of Emergency Physicians]], post-nominal title used to indicate that an emergency physician's education and training, professional qualifications, and ethical conduct have passed a rigorous evaluation
  • Fellowship of the College of Emergency Medicine, the exit examination taken by specialists in Emergency Medicine in the United Kingdom and Ireland

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