Emergency medicine is a field of medicine that specializes in emergency care for acute diseases, damages, and mass disasters.
Since in Korea, emergency medicine specialists began to release in 1996, it is a new field compared to many clinicians in traditional medicine such as internal medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. In modern times, medicine is becoming more and more specialized in segmentation. The occurrence of an emergency patient may be a single organ injury, rather than a disease. As seen in traffic accident patients or acutely ill patients, they show complex damage and infestation of various organs in the human body. So emergency medical doctors in the emergency room are responsible for integrated and rapid diagnosis and treatment of emergency patients 24 hours a day, 365 days a day.
The specialized fields divided according to the anatomical classification of our body and diseases. Unlike many departments of traditional medicine that perform medical treatments such as outpatient, hospitalization, and surgery, Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medical Center) specializes in emergency care, so it is widely researched and treated across all clinical fields. While in charge of the field of education, areas such as the emergency medical service system, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, clinical toxicology, and disaster medicine are being studied in more depth. These areas can be said to be specialized areas of emergency medicine.
The Emergency Medical Center of Daegu Catholic University Hospital is designated as a Regional Emergency Medical Center under the Act on Emergency Medical Care. It is consistently rated ‘A’ for five consecutive years by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs and the Central Emergency Medical Center. It participates in the national Emergency Patient Network Project and the National Transfer Patient Information Network Project. Since 2008, it has been designated as a 119 paramedic clinical training hospital by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, and the National Emergency Management Agency. It has been conducting clinical training for 119 paramedics. And we carry out CPR training for emergency workers and the general public as the American Heart Association Basic Life Support Training Site.