Most emergency admissions are short; half of those patients stay for under 24 hours.
Not all emergency admissions start with an ambulance, he said.
The appointment had been pre-arranged and was not an emergency admission, he added.
In the U.S., if you needed a bypass you'd be out of the surgery less than fourteen hours after emergency admission.
In the UK it was emergency admission, minimal support therapy, months wait.
I once presided over an involuntary emergency admission at the state mental hospital for a woman who thought she was Emeril.
Thus 'if emergency admission as an in-patient is required, the cost should be met by the district of residence.
The state must be willing to restore enough beds to accommodate emergency admissions.
To cope with emergency admissions, corridors were refurbished to provide a further 180 bed spaces.
The problem is blamed on a sudden rise in emergency admissions.