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Emergency Medicine and Acute Care: Keeping Pace with Growing Regional Needs NNight or day, the Emergency Department doors 40 Robert Wood Johnson ■ MEDICINE Emergency Medicine Residency Augments Teaching and Patient Care never stop swinging. In 2010, the emergency medicine team provided treatment for an astounding 68,000 adult patients — the equivalent of the entire combined popula- tions of the city of New Brunswick and neighboring Highland Park. Of these, 3,000 were trauma patients, with multi-organ illness or injury. The Pediatric Emergency Department served an additional 27,000 patients. Whatever the level of disease or injury, excellent care is provided, thanks to the successful collaboration of the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Department of Emergency Medicine and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), a Level 1 Trauma Center. New Jersey is home to only three Level 1 Trauma Centers. Now in its 20th year as a Level 1 service, the Trauma Center at RWJUH serves Region 2, the center of the state. The intense, never-ending activity of the Emergency Department team is extraordinary, yet the team maintains the sense of order and calm that is necessary to diagnose, treat, and either admit or discharge patients of highly divergent ages and needs. “In the Emergency Department, we do in hours what others do in days or weeks. It takes some getting used to,” says Robert Eisenstein, MD, associate professor and vice chair, Department of Emergency Medicine. ➔ By Kate O’Neill
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