The Emergency Room is a well organized unit complete with efficient personnel, equipment and supplies ready at all times for the effective and prompt care of patients with urgent and critical needs.
Objectives:
To preserve life.
To restore the patient to useful living.
To prevent deterioration before more definitive treatment can be given.
Capabilities:
Evaluate, treat and manage a wide variety of cases requiring emergency immediate and intermediate care.
Provide ambulance service to conduct patients from EAMC to to other hospitals for transfer or to perform special diagostic/therapeutic procedures.
Manage effectively and efficiently mass casualty insidents and injuries.
Department Head
Emergency Department and Trauma Center
Cardenas Medical Center
Office: Emergency Trauma Center
Local Numbers:
Ambulance Service: 315
Emergency Room Registry: 375