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Accident & Emergency

Conditions and Symptoms That Require Emergency Care

The Emergency Department is responsible for receiving, diagnosing, and managing all life-threatening or urgent medical conditions that require immediate intervention.

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Conditions and symptoms that require emergency care:

  • Severe, crushing chest pain radiating to the arm, neck, or back (suspected heart attack).
  • Palpitations, fainting, or loss of consciousness (severe arrhythmia).
  • Extremely high blood pressure causing headache, dizziness, or blurred vision (hypertensive crisis).
  • Sudden drop in blood pressure, weak and rapid pulse (shock).
  • Sudden weakness or paralysis on one side, facial drooping, slurred speech (suspected stroke).
  • The worst headache ever experienced, accompanied by vomiting, seizures, or confusion.
  • Repeated or prolonged seizures without regaining consciousness.
  • Sudden shortness of breath, wheezing, or bluish skin (acute asthma, pulmonary edema, airway obstruction).
  • Shortness of breath with sharp chest pain (suspected pulmonary embolism or pneumothorax).
  • Vomiting blood, passing black stools, or severe rectal bleeding (gastrointestinal bleeding).
  • Severe abdominal pain, bloating, continuous vomiting (appendicitis, bowel obstruction, acute pancreatitis).
  • Rigid abdomen, fever, vomiting (suspected surgical abdomen).
  • Traffic accidents, falls, head trauma, or loss of consciousness.
  • Dislocations or sprains.
  • Deep or bleeding wounds, penetrating injuries to the chest or abdomen.
  • Ectopic pregnancy: abdominal pain, vaginal bleeding, missed period.
  • High fever with seizures, lethargy, or unconsciousness (meningitis, sepsis).
  • Dengue fever with low blood pressure (septic or dengue shock).
  • Anaphylaxis: facial, lip, or tongue swelling; difficulty breathing; low blood pressure after medication, food, or insect sting.
  • Poisoning from drugs, chemicals, toxic gases, or ingestion of corrosive substances.
  • Intentional ingestion of pesticides, herbicides, rat poison, or medication overdose.
  • Food poisoning, acute diarrhea.

In summary, any condition that is life-threatening, rapidly worsening, causing severe pain, or impairing consciousness should be treated as an emergency and brought to the Emergency Department immediately.

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