Conditions that must be immediately taken to the emergency room

The Emergency Department (IGD) is a unit in a hospital that provides first aid for patients who experience serious illness or injury that can be life-threatening. An emergency is a serious situation that can threaten life, while an emergency is a situation that occurs suddenly and requires immediate treatment.

Patients who come to the ER are categorized based on their level of emergency, namely:

1. Urgent and emergency conditions are life-threatening and require immediate treatment.

2. Urgent but not emergency: a condition that is not life-threatening but requires immediate treatment.

3. Emergency but not serious: conditions that are not life-threatening but require urgent treatment

4. Not serious and not emergency: conditions that are not life-threatening and do not require immediate treatment.

Some conditions that are considered emergencies and require immediate treatment in the emergency room are:

1. Heart attack or cardiac arrest

A heart attack can be characterized by chest pain, which often feels like being pressed by a heavy object. Chest pain can be felt spreading from the jaw to the left arm. Apart from that, chest pain can be accompanied by cold sweat, nausea, or vomiting. If you experience this, go to the emergency room immediately for further treatment because a heart attack can cause cardiac arrest and be fatal if not treated immediately.

      2. Difficulty breathing

There are several disease conditions characterized by complaints of difficulty breathing, such as acute asthma attacks, lung infections, heart failure, and other diseases. Difficulty breathing can also be caused by an obstruction in the airway, such as choking.

     3. Loss of consciousness

If people around you appear to be losing consciousness, falling asleep more often, having difficulty waking them up, or even fainting, immediately take them to the emergency room because this is a sign of a serious condition that needs immediate treatment.

    4. Strokes

Symptoms and signs of a stroke can be recognized by "SeGeRa Go to the Hospital":

• Asymmetrical smile (turned to one side), choking, and difficulty swallowing suddenly
• The movement of half of the body's limbs suddenly weakens.
• speak slurredly, suddenly can't speak, can't understand words, or doesn't speak coherently.
• Numbness, numbness, or tingling in half of the body
• Myopia, blurred vision in one eye, occurs suddenly.
• Severe headaches that appear suddenly

   5. Physical injury, accident, or electric shock

   6. Seizures

   7. Severe stomach pain

   8. Poisoning

   9. Uncontrolled or difficult to stop bleeding

   10. High fever accompanied by headache and stiff neck

   11. Severe vomiting or diarrhea that doesn't stop

   12. A severe headache that is unusual and appears suddenly

   13. The skin, nails, fingers, or around the mouth appear bluish.

If Hermina's friend or people around you experience the above conditions, immediately take them to the emergency room for immediate treatment.