Emergency Treatment

This is a special area of medicine that addresses urgent and potentially life-threatening issues with immediate medical care and treatment. With emergency medicine treatment, you receive care for an issue that develops suddenly or rapidly.

Among the lists of emergency are:-

• Bleeding that will not stop.
• Breathing problems – difficulty breathing, shortness of breath.
• Change in mental status – confusion, unusual behaviour, difficulty waking.
• Chest pain or pressure.
• Choking.
• Coughing up or vomiting blood.
• Fainting or loss of consciousness.
• Feelings of harming yourself or others.
• Head or spine injury.
• Severe or persistent vomiting.
• Sudden injury due to an accident, burns or smoke inhalation, near-drowning, deep or large wound, or other severe injuries.
• Sudden, severe pain anywhere on the body.
• Sudden dizziness, weakness, or change in vision.
• Swallowing a poisonous substance.
• Severe abdominal pain.