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Emergency Medicine

"Emergency Medicine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation and initial treatment of urgent and emergent medical problems, such as those caused by accidents, trauma, sudden illness, poisoning, or disasters. Emergency medical care can be provided at the hospital or at sites outside the medical facility.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Emergency Medicine" by people in this website by year, and whether "Emergency Medicine" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 89 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2020
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