emergency room
noun
: a hospital room or area staffed and equipped for the reception and treatment of persons requiring immediate medical care
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Customers who ate the oysters at 100s Seafood Grill Buffet in Mission Valley between March 31 and April 1 became sick, with one person going to the emergency room, county officials said Tuesday.
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2024
Dangerous complications The study, published Friday in the journal JAMA Health Forum, analyzed claims from an insurance database of people ages 15 and older to determine the number of emergency room visits and hospitalizations due to alcohol abuse during the pandemic.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
The security camera footage — which wasn’t played in court — showed Meade being escorted out of the hospital’s emergency room department by the three correction officers into the ambulance bay where the prison van was located, Canfield said.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
Or wondering who will care for your mother whose dementia is progressing rapidly hundreds of miles away, and whose emergency room visits have become more frequent and frightening as the months go by.
—Dawn Huckelbridge, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2024
Though the hospital was a two-minute drive across the street, Walker was not received by the emergency room until nearly two hours after she was discovered, documents show.
—Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
Patients hurl verbal abuse at Michelle Ravera every day in the emergency room.
—Sejal Parekh, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
One of the people in the other vehicle suffered a back injury, numbness, and a concussion and was taken to a hospital emergency room, the consumer added.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
Reynolds and colleagues studied the problem by looking at more than 29 million emergency room visits by people under 55 reporting chest pain.
—Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2024
Dangerous complications The study, published Friday in the journal JAMA Health Forum, analyzed claims from an insurance database of people ages 15 and older to determine the number of emergency room visits and hospitalizations due to alcohol abuse during the pandemic.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
The security camera footage — which wasn’t played in court — showed Meade being escorted out of the hospital’s emergency room department by the three correction officers into the ambulance bay where the prison van was located, Canfield said.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
Or wondering who will care for your mother whose dementia is progressing rapidly hundreds of miles away, and whose emergency room visits have become more frequent and frightening as the months go by.
—Dawn Huckelbridge, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2024
Though the hospital was a two-minute drive across the street, Walker was not received by the emergency room until nearly two hours after she was discovered, documents show.
—Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
Patients hurl verbal abuse at Michelle Ravera every day in the emergency room.
—Sejal Parekh, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
One of the people in the other vehicle suffered a back injury, numbness, and a concussion and was taken to a hospital emergency room, the consumer added.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
Reynolds and colleagues studied the problem by looking at more than 29 million emergency room visits by people under 55 reporting chest pain.
—Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
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“Emergency room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergency%20room. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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