Examinations and treatment at Emergency services

Management may not only include doctor’s examinations, laboratory testing, imaging and/or some procedures, but also observation and follow-up of the patient’s condition at Emergency services.

The doctor may prescribe laboratory, imaging and other examinations and it takes some time before the results are available. It will take some time before all results are available.

Once the results have come, the doctor will inform you and decide on how to proceed.

Please feel free to ask the personnel if you have questions that arise during your stay at Emergency services.

Waiting time is also treatment time when your condition is followed. If your condition changes, please let the health care personnel know. Emergency services is occasionally crowded and waiting times will be long.

A team for addressing holistically acute geriatric problems of elderly people brings geriatric knowhow to the Emergency services and is available for consultations and geriatric assessments for patients needing this service. The goal is to evaluate better than before, holistically, the condition of elderly patients at the Emergency services and to support their functional capacity. An important part of the work of the team is to maintain close collaboration with the primary care of the municipalities.

In case of a life-threatening emergency or if you need immediate help, call the emergency number 112. In life-threatening situations urgent help is needed. Patient with a life-threatening condition are treated in the facilities for acute patient management.  Here are examples of such conditions:

• a person does not breathe or you cannot awake him/her
• severe shortness of breath / breathing difficulties
• chest pain
• sudden speech difficulty and/or muscle weakness on one side of the body, one-sided facial droop
• sudden, intense vertigo (dizziness)
• convulsions
• major bleeding
• injuries to the head followed by a depressed level or loss of consciousness
• traffic accident
• fall from a height.

The treatment of a patient in critical condition requires often special arrangements before the patient is brought to the hospital. To safeguard uninterrupted treatment, a paramedic informs the nurse at Emergency services about the patient’s condition and provides an estimation of the time of arrival to the hospital. Now the hospital personnel can make preparations to receive the patient appropriately, which includes alarming the best physician resources available to treat the patient from the start.

The department nurses order the transportation of patients to examinations. Our hospital paramedics transport and assist the patients so that examinations may be carried out smoothly.