Medical emergencies, traumatic or not, are situations that put life or vital functions at imminent risk. Patients survival and/or minimization of sequelae of such health injuries depend on the adequate actions of a multidisciplinary team, with specific training and availability, necessarily involving the early recognition of such situations followed by precise propedeutic and therapeutic actions.

The concept that severe or complex patients should be received and seen at the hospital entrance by an available and specifically trained staff is used in developed and some developing countries.

In the US, specific training in emergencies is mandatory to work in emergency medicine. In Brazil, many of the emergency services, especially those located in the outskirts of large cities, are served by professionals hardly trained to see critical patients. It is common to see in emergency room, physicians or nurses who have just graduated from the university or with some non specific training which, due to a crowded, competitive market, looking for financial survival, take risks and put at risk other people's lives. This scenario, staged for some years, has been made worse due to overcrowding of the emergency services, consequence of a health policy that is yet crawling in primary prevention and of basic sanitation issues.
We need more than governmental agencies attention. Legislation must be in favor of quality of service. We therefore want to have a broad discussion, not only on the main theme- technical issues related to emergencies but, above all, what surrounds them, the needs, strengthening the opinion that an emergency should be treated by an “EMERGENCIST”, or EMERGENCE SPECIALIST, and that EMERGENCY MEDICINE must be a SPECIALTY.

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Organizing Committee