Emergency
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An emergency can be defined in a number of ways, but commonly is associated with a situation that poses an immediate threat to life, wellbeing, property or environment. The definition of an emergency is often subjective, and what may be a personal 'emergency', may seem to others to be trivial. This is especially true of personal wellbeing emergencies, where a person may feel that their life is being severely affected, though others may not agree.
- 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
- Emergency medical services - Prehospital care including Ambulances
- Police
- Fire service
- 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
- Emergency department, hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries
- Emergency medicine, branch of medicine that is practised 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
- 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 physician Gino Strada, whose 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
- Annals of Emergency Medicine, peer-reviewed medical journal
- Emergency Medicine Journal, peer-reviewed medical journal
- 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
- 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
- Emergency (Philippine TV program), a news and public affairs program on GMA Network
- "Emergency" (song), by the emo band Paramore
- The Joel Plaskett Emergency, a Canadian rock band
- Emergency Records, a record label
- 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