Diseases

Emergencies

Situations or conditions requiring immediate intervention to avoid serious adverse results.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Situations or conditions requiring immediate intervention to avoid serious adverse results.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Emergency

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Aspects Covered

7 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, epidemiology, history, nursing, psychology, veterinary.

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Indexing Annotation

EMERGENCY MEDICINE is the corresponding specialty; emergencies in specific diseases: coordinate NIM with specific disease (IM); "drug emergencies": coordinate NIM with specific drug or chemical with probably /pois (IM)

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Tree Numbers

  1. C23.550.291.781w
  2. N06.230w.100w.083w
  3. N06.850w.376w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Emergencies. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004630. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004630
  2. Emergencies. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_emergency
  3. Emergencies. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2751242