Emergency

An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate threat to human life or serious damage to property or environment. A false report of an emergency is usually a crime. Emergency may also refer to:

In profession:
* Emergency medical technician, emergency responder trained to provide emergency medical services to the critically ill and injured
* Emergency physician, physician who works at an emergency department to care for acutely ill patients
* Firefighter, who is trained and equipped to provide emergency medical services

In medicine:
* Emergency department, hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries
* Emergency medical services, prehospital care
* Emergency medicine, branch of medicine that is practiced in a hospital emergency department
* Medical emergency, injury or illness that poses an immediate threat to a person's health or life which requires help from a doctor or hospital, or other situation in which a person requires rescue

In organisations:
* British Association for Emergency Medicine, the representative body for emergency physicians in the United Kingdom
* California Emergency Medical Services Authority, agency of California State government
* Emergency (NGO), an Italian NGO, founded by the medician Gino Strada, which aim is to help civil victims of armed conflicts
* Emergency medicine in France, hospitals
* Organization of the emergency medical assistance, the first aid that is given to victims of accidents or of the acute effects of diseases
* SMUR emergency mobile resuscitation unit, mobile medical units designed to provide emergency care to patients on the scene of an accident or malaise

In journalism:
* Annals of Emergency Medicine, peer-reviewed medical journal
* Emergency Medicine Journal, peer-reviewed medical journal

In education:
* Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, institution whose prime objective is the training and examination of emergency physicians for Australia and New Zealand
* American College of Emergency Physicians, the largest organization of emergency physicians in the United States
* College of Emergency Medicine, organisation of emergency physicians in the United Kingdom which sets standards of training and administers examinations for emergency physicians in the United Kingdom and Ireland
* Fellow of American College of Emergency Physicians, post-nominal title used to indicate that an emergency physician's education and training, professional qualifications, and ethical conduct have passed a rigorous evaluation
* Fellowship of the College of Emergency Medicine, the exit examination taken by specialists in Emergency Medicine in the United Kingdom and Ireland

In television:
* Emergency!, a popular 1970s American TV series about a paramedic unit in Los Angeles
* Emergency Medical Hologram, holographic program intended to support or replace medical personnel aboard a Starfleet vessel or installation in case of emergency in the Star Trek fictional universe
* Emergency (TV program), an informative Philippine television program hosted by Arnold Clavio aired on GMA Network.

In politics:
* 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines, coup attempt
* Emergency Alert System, national system in the U.S. put into place in 1997
* Indian Emergency, Indian state of emergency from 1975-1977 declared by Indira Gandhi
* State of emergency, governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government
* The Emergency, time in Ireland during WWII
* Malayan Emergency, insurrection and guerrilla war of the Malayan Races Liberation Army against the British and Malayan administration from 1948-1960 in what is now Malaysia

In other fields:
* Emergency action principles, principles that describe what to do when encountering an emergency situation
* Emergency management, the discipline dealing with and avoiding risks
* Emergency service, public services that deal with emergencies and other aspects of Public Safety
* Emergency shelter, places for people to live temporarily when they can't live in their previous residence
* Emergency telephone, phone specifically provided for making calls to emergency services
* Emergency telephone number, telephone numbering plan
* Maritime emergency, any serious distress to a maritime vessel or her crew