27/05/2023
Emergency Medicine Day, also known as International Emergency Medicine Day or EM-Day, is an international awareness day observed annually on May 27. Its main objective is to promote the right to free, professional, competent, and timely emergency medicine in every country of the world.
Emergency medicine focuses on the care of injuries or illnesses that require immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians, nurses, paramedics, and other medical personnel specializing in emergency medicine are first-line healthcare workers who have to care for unscheduled patients of all ages.
The main purpose of emergency medicine is to provide timely and competent first response to a wide range of life threatening conditions such as heart attack, stroke, cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, trauma, bleeding, and sepsis. Emergency medicine is not concerned with conditions that can be managed in the primary or ambulatory care setting.
Emergency medicine specialists (doctors, nurses, paramedics, technicians) provide their services in emergency department/rules in hospitals and in the pre-hospital field, including during natural disasters and humanitarian crises.
In most developed countries, there are emergency medicine systems and special training programs for medical personnel specializing in emergency medicine. However, emergency medicine in developing countries is still evolving. To promote the growth of emergency medicine in parts of the world there it is underdeveloped, there exist international emergency medicine programs.