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Emergency medicine is a specialty devoted to providing comprehensive, timely and effective treatment and management of patients in acutely unstable conditions with varying severity and backgrounds. In short, it is the full range of acute patient care services delivered in emergency centers and pertinent facilities.
The creation of the specialty of emergency medicine took place in 1996 in Korea, a relatively recent event. Since then, emergency medicine specialists have taken primary responsibility for the increasing demand and complexity of emergency care in almost every tertiary-level medical institution.
We handle all emergency visits, provide emergency care and training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in and out of the hospital, offer medical services for special needs and victims of disasters, and run the Emergency Air Medical Team.
We are staffed by 19 interns and residents from the Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Neurology and Department of Family Medicine, 48 nurses and 4 radiological technologists.
We have 51 beds available in the Triage Room, Intensive Care Room, Operating Room, Central Treatment Room, Pediatric Treatment Room, Isolation Room, Interview Room and Observation Room. Our emergency care equipment includes defibrillators, electrocardiogram monitors, oxygen saturation monitors, ultrasonograms, gynecologic examination tables and incubators.
- Pediatric Patients: treated by the Department of Pediatrics staff
- Maternity Patients: treated by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Delivery Room
- Other Patients: treated by the Department of Emergency Medicine first and then referred to the proper department
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electrocardiogram monitor, defibrillator, pulse-oximeter, oxygen delivery device and suction unit
