Emergency Medicine Services

Emergency Medicine is the first line of care for many patients, from minor emergencies including cuts and bruises, to patients with the most critical conditions and illnesses, including stroke, heart attack and car accidents. Emergency Medicine operates one of the nine designated comprehensive emergency rooms in California – which serves Orange County and surrounding communities 24 hours a day, seven days a week. UC Irvine Medical Center’s emergency room provides Orange County comprehensive services to address urgent and emergent medical needs.

Emergency Medicine’s multidisciplinary team manages minor conditions as well as some of the most serious illnesses and injuries, including:

• Burns
• Bruises
• Cuts
• Fever
• Older adult concerns
• Pregnancy and female problems
• Heart attack
• Major injuries
• Pediatric emergencies
• Rashes
• Stroke

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Medical Services

• Immediate state-of-the-art diagnostic services as needed, including CT scan, MRI, ultrasound.
• Rapid response teams to mobilize the proper specialists to the bedside in the emergency room for conditions including heart attack, brain attack, trauma (injury) and burns. We are a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and an Orange County Emergency Medical Services-designated Cardiac Receiving Center, with 24 hour cardiac catheterization capability for heart attacks.
• Special expertise in the acute treatment of behavioral emergencies, as well as specialists in poisonings and overdoses.

Trauma Services

UC Irvine Medical Center has the only Level I Trauma Center in Orange County, providing the most comprehensive treatment of life-threatening injuries. It is fully verified as an Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons, and all trauma surgeons are fellowship trained and board certified. In addition, we are the entry point of the only Burn Center in Orange County verified by the American College of Surgeons.

Physician Expertise

Our Emergency Medicine physicians are skilled and experienced in all aspects of emergency care, with special expertise in the following:

• Disaster planning and response
• Emergency medical systems
• Emergency ultrasound
• Computers in medicine
• Geriatric medicine (conditions of the elderly)
• Infectious diseases and tropical medicine
• International outreach
• Toxicology (poisonings and overdoses)
• Trauma (injuries)
• Sports medicine

Not only do we provide expert physician evaluation and state-of-the-art laboratory testing and imaging (CT, ultrasound, MRI), but the emergency room at UC Irvine Medical Center also has access to specialists from 23 disciplines 24 hours a day. This capability and response is unmatched by community hospitals.

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