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Acute medicine

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Acute medicine is that part of internal medicine concerned with the immediate and early specialist management of adult patients with a wide range of medical conditions who present in hospital as emergencies. The field developed in the United Kingdom after reports in 1998 that people admitted to hospital for emergencies needed better care in the early stages of their admission.[1] Acute medicine is not identical to emergency medicine, which is limited to the management of people attending the emergency department.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Dowdle JR (2004). "Acute medicine: past, present, and future". Emerg Med J. 21 (6): 652–3. doi:10.1136/emj.2003.012211. PMC 1726512. PMID 15496684. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
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