page_title: Emergency department
hierarchical_section_title: Emergency department
caption_attribution_description: From "Historic VCU: A VCU Images Special Collection" VCU Libraries, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Special Collections &amp; Archives h0038
context_page_description: The emergency department is a part of a hospital for treating people who have just come to the hospital, need to be treated quickly even without an appointment. These people may have been hurt, or they may have suddenly become very ill.
  Patients come to an emergency department with little warning. Many come in an ambulance. Emergency departments often have staff working all day and all night, on every day of the week. This is because patients can arrive at any time. To work in those places, doctors and nurses must be trained in emergency medicine.
  There are many different names for an emergency department. They are often called an emergency room, even if they are bigger than one room. They may also be called an emergency ward or emergency unit. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, they are usually called accident & emergency department and less often as a casualty department.
context_section_description: The emergency department (ED) is a part of a hospital for treating people who have just come to the hospital, need to be treated quickly even without an appointment. These people may have been hurt, or they may have suddenly become very ill.
  Patients come to an emergency department with little warning. Many come in an ambulance. Emergency departments often have staff working all day and all night, on every day of the week. This is because patients can arrive at any time. To work in those places, doctors and nurses must be trained in emergency medicine.
  There are many different names for an emergency department. They are often called an emergency room (ER), even if they are bigger than one room. They may also be called an emergency ward (EW) or emergency unit. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, they are usually called accident & emergency department (A&E) and less often as a casualty department.
caption: Emergency Room in Virginia
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