Look up emergency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An emergency is an urgent, unexpected, and usually dangerous situation that poses an immediate risk...

Emergency! is an American action-adventure medical drama television series jointly produced by Mark VII Limited and Universal Television. Debuting on...

cope with disasters. Emergency management, despite its name, does not actually focus on the management of emergencies; emergency management or disaster...

An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department...

The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti–British National Liberation War, (1948–1960) was a guerrilla war fought in the Federation of Malaya between...

Emergency contraception (EC) is a birth control measure, used after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy. There are different forms of EC. Emergency...

The Emergency in India was a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency across the country by citing...

A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the...

different emergencies. Some of these agencies exist solely for addressing certain types of emergencies, while others deal with ad hoc emergencies as part...

first two emergencies were in the face of external aggression and War. They were hence external emergencies. Even as the second emergency was in progress...

Emergency or The Emergency may also refer to: Malayan Emergency, the guerrilla war in Malaya 1948–1960 The Emergency (India), the state of emergency 1975–1977...

Emergency medicine is the medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency medicine...

connect callers to the local emergency services. But not all countries use those emergency telephone numbers. The emergency numbers in the world (but not...

An emergency telephone number is a number that allows a caller to contact local emergency services for assistance. The emergency number differs from country...

"This Is an Emergency" is the first single from The Pigeon Detectives second album Emergency. It was first played on 24 March 2008 on BBC Radio 1 and was...

An emergency physician (often called an "ER doctor" in the United States) is a physician who works in an emergency department to care for ill patients...

Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom provide emergency care to people with acute illness or injury and are predominantly provided free at the...

emergencies," emergency nurses increasingly care for people who are unwilling or unable to get primary medical care elsewhere and come to emergency departments...

911, sometimes written 9-1-1, is an emergency telephone number for Argentina, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Fiji, Jordan, Iraq (in September 2024) [citation...

Emergency rations are items of food and drink that a person stores and relies on in case of an emergency. Emergency food supplies can be purchased for...

Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies...

An emergency shelter is a place for people to live temporarily when they cannot live in their previous residence, similar to homeless shelters. The main...

An emergency exit in a building or other structure is a special exit used during emergencies such as fires. The combined use of regular and emergency exits...

A climate emergency declaration or declaring a climate emergency is an action taken by governments and scientists to acknowledge humanity is in a climate...

Meditations in an Emergency is a book of poetry by American poet Frank O'Hara, first published by Grove Press in 1957. Its title poem was first printed...

YOO-nee-SEF), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency...

Emergency medical services (EMS), also known as ambulance services or paramedic services, are emergency services that provide urgent pre-hospital treatment...

A medical emergency is an acute injury or illness that poses an immediate risk to a person's life or long-term health, sometimes referred to as a situation...

The Cyprus Emergency was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA),...

The Emergency Banking Act (EBA) (the official title of which was the Emergency Banking Relief Act), Public Law 73-1, 48 Stat. 1 (March 9, 1933), was an...