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5 unusual facts about Emergency Department


Community Hospital of Long Beach

The 1960s and 1970s saw increasing modernization of hospital equipment and facilities with a doubling of the size of the emergency room, the opening of an intensive care unit, a nuclear medicine department and a coronary care unit.

Hull Royal Infirmary

A four-floor building directly connected to the back of this tower block houses the Accident and Emergency department and Acute Admissions Unit, the high dependency unit, and radiology, as well as the operating theatres and most of the hospital's outpatient facilities.

John Kitzhaber

Kitzhaber practiced medicine from 1973 to 1986 in Roseburg, Oregon as an emergency room physician.

Rorschach test

James Heilman, an emergency room physician involved in the debate, compared it to the publication of the eye test chart: though people are likewise free to memorize the eye chart before an eye test, its general usefulness as a diagnostic tool for eyesight has not diminished.

Urinary retention

A person should go straight to an emergency department or A&E service as soon as possible if unable to urinate with a painfully full bladder.


Chapel Allerton Hospital

It does not have an Accident and Emergency service, but includes the Chapel Allerton Orthopaedic Centre (CHOC) which is a major regional centre of expertise for this specialism, and a National Demonstration Centre for Neurological Rehabilitation.

Eirlys Warrington

A ward manager role in orthopaedic and trauma nursing at North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary was followed by a move to the Accident and Emergency Department to become part of the developing M6 motorway accident team.

Gitte Pedersen

In 2013 she was working in the accident & emergency department of Bispebjerg Hospital.

Ireland Army Community Hospital

Major services include general medical and surgical care, adult and pediatric primary care clinics, 24-hour Emergency department, specialty clinics, clinical services, wellness and prevention services, and a VA clinic.

Lead climbing injuries

A Prospective Study of Rock Climbing Injuries, a study performed by Jonathon P. Wyatt, Gordon W. McNaughton, and Patrick T. Grant, registrars and consultants at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary surveyed patients from 1992-93 who checked in with climbing related injuries.

Matthew Gardiner

Matthew briefly studied surveying at Queensland University of Technology before transferring to Charles Darwin University to complete an undergraduate Nursing degree before working at Royal Darwin Hospital in the Emergency Department and Operating Theatre.

McDonald Army Health Center

The hospital today is a 30-bed JCAHO-accredited facility, but does not provide inpatient or emergency care.


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David Caldicott

Dr. David Caldicott is an Irish Emergency Consultant at the Emergency Department of the Calvary Hospital in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

Ria Vandervis

She played the role of the villainess Miratrix in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, and currently portrays Emergency Department Surgeon prodigy Harper Whitley on the long-running TV2 soap opera Shortland Street.

TabletKiosk

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, United States has patients visiting its emergency department fill in their details using a TabletKiosk machine.

TK Samuels

TK arrived to the hospital in 2006 to greet his cousin Huia (Nicola Kawana) and the immature doctor quickly gained a job in the Emergency Department much to the annoyance of Sarah Potts (Amanda Billing).

William Joel Meggs

Since 1991, Meggs has been affiliated with the Emergency Department at Vidant Medical Center, in Greenville, North Carolina, which is the flagship teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.