Sentences with phrase «receiving emergency room treatment»

An April 2007 Canadian study found that children receiving emergency room treatment for a head injury (HI) are nearly twice as likely to experience another HI requiring medical attention in the next six months compared to children who initially visited the ER for a non-head related injury.

Not exact matches

Last year, more than 8,000 people in the United States (most of them children) received treatment at an emergency room for injuries related to fireworks.

Potentially, the promising treatment could be rapidly administered to heart attack patients arriving at the emergency room (or even while in the ambulance), and could preserve heart muscle before patients receive invasive interventions to open blocked arteries.

It's also very important for medical teams — not only oncology practices or centers but emergency - room staff, primary and urgent - care teams, intensive - care personnel, pulmonary doctors and other specialists — to know what therapies a patient is receiving and to be aware of the potential side effects and interactions that these treatments may cause.

This means people receive treatment before they need expensive emergency room services.

Go to your family physician or the emergency room to ensure that you have received the treatment necessary to recover.

Approximately 850,000 people were injured severely enough to have to receive medical treatment and 350,000 had to visit the emergency room.

The American Burn Association reports that nearly a half - a-million people receive hospital and emergency room treatment for burns every year in the United States.

This medical malpractice case arose from the treatment the plaintiff received in an emergency room.

The expert will then be required to demonstrate how the emergency room treatment that the patient received did not meet that standard of care.

In a press release accompanying the law's announcement, the City estimated that 5,700 Ottawa children receive medical treatment in emergency rooms, and 400 children are hospitalized, every year because of sports - related head injuries.

For example, an individual may receive a gunshot wound during a robbery and seek treatment in a hospital emergency room.

Therefore, he argues, it tends to favour crises and focuses on the emergency room model which selects which people should receive treatment.