EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
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Emergency services are the units where hospitals serve patients in need of emergency medical assistance. Emergency services operate by dividing into various units according to the patient's complaint and the urgency of the health condition. Following the increase in the intensity in emergency services in recent years, this unit serves by dividing patients and diseases into 3 groups. These groups are classified according to the symptoms carried by the patient and are classified as follows:
Red Area: This group concerns priority emergency patients. The red area unit deals with life-threatening cases of severe injury or severe illness. Patients included in the red area are in the class that requires the most urgent situation. Medical interventions for people with symptoms of heart attack, serious respiratory problems, sharps injuries and multiple trauma are carried out in the red area unit.
Yellow Area: The yellow area unit provides service for medical intervention to be performed in case the person has diseases with the risk of permanent damage to the body as a result of an accident, trauma, etc. Patients referred to the yellow area are those who can wait for a while before the intervention.
Green Area: The green area unit provides service in cases of mild injuries and diseases. The health status of the patients in the green area is less urgent than the patients in the yellow and red areas. For this reason, patients in this group may wait for a long time, especially in busy and crowded hospitals. After the triage (the system of determining the priorities of medical intervention in emergency services) process is carried out, the patients should be intervened in the relevant unit described above.
Within the framework of the definition of triage categories, emergency departments deal with many health problems ranging from respiratory distress to earache, bleeding to sore throat.
The list of emergency diseases that the Emergency Department deals with is presented below:
Traffic accident
Suicide attempt
Any condition that causes loss of consciousness
Falling from a height
Heart attack, arrhythmia (irregular heart rhythm), hypertensive crises (related to high blood pressure) (These conditions can cause cerebral haemorrhage)
Frostbite, frostbite
Asthma attack, acute respiratory problems
Uremic and diabetic coma [Conditions caused by renal insufficiency and diabetes (diabetes), starting from clouding of consciousness to complete loss of consciousness (coma)]
Blockage, perforation, inflammation or knotting of hollow organs (stomach, intestines, etc.) (acute abdomen)
Severe allergy-related cases (In these cases, symptoms such as heart rhythm disturbance, severe allergy that may cause obstruction in the respiratory tract or blood pressure drop may be observed)
Emptying of the water bladder, started labour activities
Fractures of the lower limbs and spine: fractures of the legs and all types of spinal fractures with large external or internal haemorrhage.
Meningitis, encephalitis, brain abscess
Sudden paralyses (stroke)
Migraine and/or headaches accompanied by vomiting, loss of consciousness
Terrorism, sabotage, shootings, stabbings, fights, etc.
Rape
Serious burns
Diver's (decompression) disease (popularly known as "eating a stroke")
Serious eye injuries
Acute psychotic cases leading to extreme aggression
Serious occupational accidents, limb amputation
Renal colic
Life-threatening internal or external bleeding due to trauma (acute massive bleeding)
Electric shock
Drowning in water
Heat stroke
Poisoning
Dialysis disease associated with a general condition disorder
Loss of consciousness in the newborn
The problem of high fever, which can occur for various reasons such as infectious diseases, heat stroke, poisoning (It can lead to problems such as heart rhythm disorder, convulsions. The average fever is 39.5 and above)
Deterioration of the general state of health to a dangerous degree due to reasons such as inadequate care, severe illness, malnutrition, old age
