An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate threat to human life or serious damage to property or environment. A false report of an emergency is usually a crime. Emergency may also refer to:

In profession:

• Emergency medical technician, emergency responder trained to provide emergency medical services to the critically ill and injured
• Emergency physician, physician who works at an emergency department to care for acutely ill patients
• Firefighter, who is trained and equipped to provide emergency medical services

In medicine:

• Emergency department, hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries
• Emergency medical services, prehospital care
• Emergency medicine, branch of medicine that is practiced in a hospital emergency department
• Medical emergency, injury or illness that poses an immediate threat to a person's health or life which requires help from a doctor or hospital, or other situation in which a person requires rescue

In organisations:

• British Association for Emergency Medicine, the representative body for emergency physicians in the United Kingdom
• California Emergency Medical Services Authority, agency of California State government
• Emergency (NGO), an Italian NGO, founded by the medician Gino Strada, which aim is to help civil victims of armed conflicts
• Emergency medicine in France, hospitals
• Organization of the emergency medical assistance, the first aid that is given to victims of accidents or of the acute effects of diseases
• SMUR emergency mobile resuscitation unit, mobile medical units designed to provide emergency care to patients on the scene of an accident or malaise

In journalism:

• Annals of Emergency Medicine, peer-reviewed medical journal
• Emergency Medicine Journal, peer-reviewed medical journal

In education:

• Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, institution whose prime objective is the training and examination of emergency physicians for Australia and New Zealand
• American College of Emergency Physicians, the largest organization of emergency physicians in the United States
• College of Emergency Medicine, organisation of emergency physicians in the United Kingdom which sets standards of training and administers examinations for emergency physicians in the United Kingdom and Ireland
• Fellow of American College of Emergency Physicians, post-nominal title used to indicate that an emergency physician's education and training, professional qualifications, and ethical conduct have passed a rigorous evaluation
• Fellowship of the College of Emergency Medicine, the exit examination taken by specialists in Emergency Medicine in the United Kingdom and Ireland

In television:

• Emergency!, a popular 1970s American TV series about a paramedic unit in Los Angeles
• Emergency Medical Hologram, holographic program intended to support or replace medical personnel aboard a Starfleet vessel or installation in case of emergency in the Star Trek fictional universe

In politics:

• 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines, coup attempt
• Emergency Alert System, national system in the U.S. put into place in 1997
• Indian Emergency, Indian state of emergency from 1975-1977 declared by Indira Gandhi
• State of emergency, governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government
• The Emergency, time in Ireland during WWII
• Malayan Emergency, insurrection and guerrilla war of the Malayan Races Liberation Army against the British and Malayan administration from 1948-1960 in what is now Malaysia

In other fields:

• Emergency action principles, principles that describe what to do when encountering an emergency situation
• Emergency management, the discipline dealing with and avoiding risks
• Emergency service, public services that deal with emergencies and other aspects of Public Safety
• Emergency shelter, places for people to live temporarily when they can't live in their previous residence
• Emergency telephone, phone specifically provided for making calls to emergency services
• Emergency telephone number, telephone numbering plan
• Maritime emergency, any serious distress to a maritime vessel or her crew

Crises | Rescue | Emergency services

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