An illness or injury that has a sudden onset and needs immediate medical attention.
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Emergency Accident Benefit
A tailor made group medical benefit plan which reimburses the insured person for expenses incurred for emergency treatment of accidents.
Emergency accident benefit (Health Insurance)
A benefit under a group medical policy that compensates the policyholder for emergency medical attention sought for accidents.
Emergency admission
Inpatient hospital or facility acceptance of a patient who requires immediate medical or psychiatric care because of life-threatening, serious, and possibly disabling conditions.
Emergency care
Health care services provided to prevent serious impairment of bodily functions or serious dysfunction to any body organ or part. Advanced life support may be required. Not all care provided in an emergency department of a hospital can be termed “emergency care.”
Emergency center
Free-standing health facility that is not hospital affiliated and provides short-term care. It usually is open 24-hours a day, 7 days a week and handles minor medical emergencies or services and procedures that need urgent treatment. Also called emergi-center, free-standing emergency medical service center, free-standing urgent care center, episodic acute care center, urgent care center, urgi-center .
Emergency dental care
Dental care performed to relieve oral pain, eliminate acute infection, control a life-threatening oral condition, or treat an injury to the teeth, jaws, or associated facial structures.
emergency department (ED)
Hospital outpatient facility available 24 hours a day that gives medical services to patients for emergent medical and surgical conditions that need immediate attention but for which the patient will not be admitted to that facility or transferred to another facility. Also called emergency room (ER) .
Emergency Exposure Limit (EEL)
Maximum concentration of toxic substance to which a person can safely be exposed for a very brief period, such as thirty seconds, if a foreseeable emergency demands. An emergency exposure limits typically permits a higher concentration of a Toxic Substance Limit Value (TLV) or Permissible Exposure Limit Z (ZPEL). See Also: “Permissible Exposure Limit” and “Threshold Limit Value.”
Emergency fund (Life Insurance)
A life insurance policy benefit that provides funds to the deceased’s survivors for emergency costs, in the time period before his or her estate is finalized.