Talk:Outline of emergency medicine

Cluster Headaches?
While cluster headaches are definitely painful and would benefit from analgesia, they are in not life-threatening like the other items on the list. In fact, patients calling 911 for a cluster headache would get a 2-Alpha non-emergency (no lights and sirens) response. Just wanted to see what people thought about its inclusion in this list. Leuko 05:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Not emergency - Indeed whilst very distressing and so an urgent problem, not "emergency" as generally understood to mean imminantly life-threatening. If cardiac arrest or status asthmaticus cases also simultaneously present to a doctor/casualty(ER), then the patient with Cluster Headache will just have to wait (likely the specific episode will have settled by time anyone gets round to seeing them in this senario). David Ruben Talk 12:54, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Support removal. Bl**dy annoying, but not a medical emergency in the same league as exsanguination and cerebral oedema. JFW | T@lk  19:38, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I've removed cluster headaches from the list since no one seems to object. Leuko 17:25, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Alphabetize
We will put trauma and CTAS 1 emergencies first than follow with a list by specialty. This is how most books present the topic.-- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:26, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Basis
Plan to base this on Rosen's 2010. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:40, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Move
I would be okay with moving this page to Outline of emergency medicine. It is sort of the basics as laided out by Rosen's textbook with some modification / wikification. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:29, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I strongly oppose this rename. OOK is now historical. Verbal chat  09:12, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support move, and move done. This article is an outline.  The outlines are a well-established format of topic coverage on Wikipedia, and they comprise one of Wikipedia's navigation systems.  For the entire set of outlines, which has grown considerably over the years, see Portal:Contents/Outlines. The Transhumanist 20:47, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Pulonary embolism
In my view this should be in the category of ciculatory emergencies just like air embolism, not in the respiratory category. --DrJos (talk) 14:48, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Derm review
-- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:49, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Title vs lede
The lede describes this list to contain symptoms of emergencies as well as the emergencies themselves. From perusing the list, it seems like this list is almost entirely comprised of just the emergencies, with one or two symptoms (like abdominal pain). Would anyone object to the lede being rewritten and the symptoms removed from the list? Cannolis (talk) 09:56, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Went ahead and made the changes. Cannolis (talk) 13:12, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Ebola
Shouldn't Ebola be added to the list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.250.240.79 (talk) 03:20, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines
"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:05, 9 August 2015 (UTC)