Medical emergencies
Pedro's view of hospital emergency care, rapid diagnosis and care structure.
In 2008, with 45 years in the profession, Pedro wrote about emergencies: hospital emergency care, the need for rapid diagnosis and the care structure that makes it possible. It is the view of someone who began at SAMDU and the Santa Casa and never stopped seeing the emergency room as the system's thermometer.
The text deals with the difference between urgency and emergency, with triage and with the importance of a team ready for the decisive minutes. It echoes accounts such as the early morning at the Santa Casa and the call from the pharmacy.
It is one of his last articles. Published in the same year as the compilation "Reminiscences of a Doctor", it closes a cycle that began with cholesterol in 1992.
This article is part of the historical archive of Pedro Moretti Guedes. It should be read as a document of its time: Medicine, pharmacology and health recommendations have changed since publication.
The original clipping is preserved by the family and will be published here once the scan can be checked against the original.