Synonyms for emergency room
emer·gen·cy room

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1. emergency roomnoun

   Synonyms:
   EW, emergency department, ER, emergency ward, casualty, accident & emergency, A&E

2. emergency roomnoun

   A department of a hospital primarily used for the treatment of the most serious, often life-threatening conditions.

   Synonyms:
   EW, emergency ward, accident & emergency, A&E, casualty, emergency department, ER

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1. emergency room, ERnoun

   a room in a hospital or clinic staffed and equipped to provide emergency care to persons requiring immediate medical treatment

   Synonyms:
   atomic number 68, erbium

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1. Nanette Wenger:

   The variable that I think would be even more important if you're just looking at the outcome of survival is the delay between the time the woman arrived at the emergency room and the time some definitive diagnosis was made and treatment instituted, if that woman was sitting in the emergency room for several hours as compared with several minutes, between the women and the men, that might be the difference. So the time would be an important variable, and that's not even addressed by the paper.

2. Eric Arzubi:

   Just like in the emergency room, you don't get comprehensive care, but you can stop the bleeding, you stabilize the patient and get them to the right level of care.

3. Megan Henry:

   [The doctor] started to tell me, you have multiple pulmonary embolisms in both lungs, they're sending an ambulance, they're going to come and they're going to rush you to the emergency room ... it just really took me by surprise and you know I knew it was something bad but I never imagined it would be something like that.

4. Steven Brown:

   If the intensive care unit beds are all filled up with patients who are on ventilators because of their pneumonia, surgeries have to be postponed, we have situations where people may come into the hospital with a heart attack, and they have to stay in the emergency room for extended periods of time while waiting for a bed to open up.

5. Kristi Watterberg:

   A problem with [ home births ] right now is our first responders, especially in various hotspots and various cities, are overwhelmed with the number of calls that they're getting... it may take them a while to get to you, and secondly, when you get to the hospital you end up in the emergency room where you would be in the heat of it. ... I think that Covid-19 is actually an argument for a planned hospital birth rather than an emergency one.