Emergency Medicine Specialist

Description

Provides diagnostic medical services and manages patients with acute and urgent illness and injury.

Description

This unit group covers Medical Practitioners not elsewhere classified. It includes Dermatologists, Emergency Medicine Specialists, Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Ophthalmologists, Pathologists, Radiation Oncologists and Radiologists.

Tasks include

• Examines and assesses patients with acute and urgent illness or injury
• Requests laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures, and interprets the results
• Provides safe and immediate care to resuscitate and stabilise patients, and manage their conditions
• Performs various life-saving procedures in operating and procedure rooms
• Refers patients to, and exchanges medical information with, relevant Medical Practitioners
• Monitors patients' progress and response to treatment, and documents patient records
• May participate in emergency responses and disaster management activities