The term was also used in 1992 when Joinson used the term in a nursing magazine to describe nurses who deal with hospital emergencies.

Cocaine-related hospital emergencies almost tripled over a four-year period, from about 5,200 in 1982 to about 14,000 in 1986.

Just as he is about to explain about Manulani and their children (described by Amelia as "half-caste"), a hospital emergency interrupts.

He is quick, intelligent and understanding; Dr. Ashutosh's right arm in managing the hospital emergencies.

Many delay seeking medical treatment until they end up receiving costly, "free" treatment in hospital emergency rooms.

Take him to hospital emergency.

It discloses that cocaine-involved hospital emergencies, which declined between 1989 and 1990, went up 30 percent in 1991 and kept rising.

Most people think of blood type as an inert factor, something that only comes into play when there is a hospital emergency.

She has been known to make a quick exit from a black-tie affair to tend to a hospital emergency, only to return to the party afterward.

In 1985, cocaine-related hospital emergencies rose by 12 percent, from 23,500 to 26,300.