Acute careAcute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. In medical terms, care for acute health conditions is the opposite from chronic care, or longer-term care. Acute care services are generally delivered by teams of health care professionals from a range of medical and surgical specialties.
Mass casualty incidentA mass casualty incident (often shortened to MCI) describes an incident in which emergency medical services resources, such as personnel and equipment, are overwhelmed by the number and severity of casualties. For example, an incident where a two-person crew is responding to a motor vehicle collision with three severely injured people could be considered a mass casualty incident. The general public more commonly recognizes events such as building collapses, train and bus collisions, plane crashes, earthquakes and other large-scale emergencies as mass casualty incidents.
Échographie d'urgenceL'échographie d'urgence est une application de l'échographie à la prise de décision rapide pour des soins urgents. Elle est effectuée par le médecin (urgentiste, smuriste, réanimateur...). Cette utilisation de l'échographie sert souvent à évaluer une urgence médicale, le plus souvent dans un service d'urgence, une unité de soins intensifs, une ambulance ou une zone de combat .
UrgentisteUn urgentiste (ou urgentologue ou médecin d'urgence au Canada) est un médecin spécialisé en médecine d'urgence. La médecine de catastrophe est une sous-spécialité de la médecine d'urgence. Il s'agit d'une personne qui assure la permanence des soins et qui traite les personnes blessées ou atteintes de souffrances aiguës au service des urgences d'un hôpital. Elle s'occupe, entre autres, d'évaluer les cas, d'établir l'ordre d'urgence, d'émettre rapidement des diagnostics et de prodiguer les soins appropriés.
Emergency medical services in FranceEmergency medical services in France are provided by a mix of organizations under public health control. The central organizations that provide these services are known as a SAMU, which stands for Service d’aide médicale urgente (Urgent Medical Aid Service). Local SAMU organisations operate the control rooms that answer emergency calls and dispatch medical responders. They also operate the SMUR (Service mobile d’urgence et réanimation – Mobile Emergency and Resuscitation Service), which refers to the ambulances and response vehicles that provide advanced medical care.
