emergency case
Sudden critical circumstance
An emergency case is a situation requiring immediate attention or intervention, typically in medical or legal contexts.
In hospitals, an emergency case is a patient needing urgent care: The ER had three emergency cases waiting.
The term also applies to urgent matters in other fields: The lawyer took on the custody dispute as an emergency case.
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
- life or deathMaximally high stakes
- ambulanceEmergency medical transport
- 911 callRequest for emergency services
- traumaLasting psychological wound
crisis · red alert · stretcher · sirens · first responder · hospital · on call · critical · triage · bleeding · paramedic · resuscitation · gurney · vitals · stabilize · code blue · crash cart · rush
- medical casesinfectious disease, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, patient history, symptoms
- patientspatient, inpatients, inpatient, outpatients, outpatient
emergency caseroutine checkup
Regular scheduled medical examination
wellness visit · preventive care · stable patient · trivial case · annual exam
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