Medicina de urgencias: una especialidad nueva para el gremio médico militar, pero vital para el servicio de sanidad militar

Abstract

Emergency medicine is a specialty of recent introduction to the military guild; nevertheless, it exists since 1970 in developed countries and has more than three decades in other national health institutions. Today, it has presence in all public and private institutions of our country; it is therefore that we decide to make a brief synthesis of the history of its creation, its development worldwide and at national level and the way it has being introduced to service of military medicine. This, with the purpose of keeping the staff of military health service informed and at par of quality with other institutions in the provision of health services in the emergency room.