The Emergency Medicine Department is the core of emergency care in the community, providing 24-hour emergency services and follow-up treatment for critically ill patients referred from local clinics or other hospitals. The Ministry of Health and Welfare approved The Emergency Medicine Department of En Chu Kong hospital in 2010 and 2013 for medium-level capacity emergency medical treatments, including acute myocardial infarction, acute stroke within three hours, and major trauma management. Also, we offer emergency medical treatments and intensive care.
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The emergency room is the main practice site of The Emergency Medicine Department that provides 24-hour continuous emergency services for internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, and pediatrics. The emergency department treats patients with critical illnesses. The order of emergency medical services, triage, and the waiting time are decided by the patient's urgency and emergency but not the registration time. Emergency services are not substitutes for other medical specialties. After the emergency diagnosis and treatment in the emergency department, consultations from or reference to other medical specialists for follow-up treatments are needed.
According to the Taiwan Triage and Acuity Scale approved by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, patients requesting emergency services are triaged and divided into five levels by the emergency medical department's senior personnel. The first level is resuscitation, the second level is emergent, the third level is urgent, the fourth level is less urgent, and the fifth level is not urgent. The triage determines the order of services and waiting time, allowing critically ill and emergent patients to be managed in the shortest interval.