#emergency

A patient suspected of presenting mainly to obtain narcotics

Emergency traffic — everyone else shut up and clear the channel.

A chaotically busy, weird shift blamed on the lunar cycle

The patient who's obviously, visibly, no-questions-about-it dying.

An emergency call that an inmate needs help.

UK ambulance run on lights and sirens with a hospital pre-alert — time-critical.

The queue of low-acuity 'worried well' at the ED

Diabetic ketoacidosis; a dangerous diabetic emergency.

A wheeled trolley of emergency resuscitation kit

Patient who keeps turning up to A&E like it's a loyalty scheme.

Deal with the ED patient quickly and discharge

A patient rapidly deteriorating in front of you

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; a bulge in the main abdominal artery.

The stream of penetrating-trauma patients (and those who cause it)

Pulmonary embolism; a clot in the lung's arteries.

A time-wasting or non-emergency ambulance call

To suffer a cardiac or respiratory arrest