How do they match: Emergency Medicine Physicians

  • Emergency Medicine Physicians

  • Emergency Department Doctor
  • Emergency Department Physician
  • Emergency Doctor
  • Emergency Medicine Physician
  • Emergency Medicine Specialist
  • Emergency Physician
  • Emergency Room Doctor
  • Emergency Room Physician
  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician

  • Make immediate medical decisions and act to prevent death or further disability. Provide immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition of patients. May direct emergency medical staff in an emergency department.

  • Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.
  • Identify factors that may affect patient management, such as age, gender, barriers to communication, and underlying disease.
  • Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
  • Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.
  • Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.

  • Treat medical emergencies.