Emergency Department Oslo

Emergency medical services in norway are operated both by the government financed through the four service delivery regions each with its own regional health authority and private organizations such as the norwegian people s aid and red cross and commercial transportation companies.

Emergency department oslo.

Emergency room for life threatening injuries or illnesses in oslo the legevakt emergency room is located at storgaten 40 tel. Emergency department ed workers are at particular risk for exposure to blood opim and bloodborne pathogens because of the immediate life threatening nature of emergency treatment. Our board certified physicians skilled nurses nurse practitioners patient care technicians and diagnostic technicians provide acute emergency care as quickly as possible. The hospital is furthermore responsible for ambulance services the 113 emergency calls service equivalent to 112 999 or 911 air ambulance and patient transportation in oslo and the county of akershus.

It is organized as two separate clinics located within the same building. The dispatch centre at ullevål hospital receives approximately 145 000 emergency ambulance calls in addition to patient transport calls from oslo and akerhus and co ordinates the dispatch of emergency ambulances the norwegian air ambulance fixed wing helicopter and physician ambulances. In norway primary care physicians decide whether to refer patients with suspected sepsis to an emergency department for further assessment and treatment. Norwegian american hospital patients and visitors stroke program emergency department norwegian american hospital emergency services offers comprehensive emergency care 24 hours a day staffed with emergency trained registered nurses and a board certified emergency medicine physician.

Oslo university hospital is an emergency hospital for east and southern norway and has national emergency cover. It is open 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Akershus university hospital which is norway s largest emergency care hospital is located about 20 km outside of the capitol oslo and the hospital s catchment area consists of a mixed urban and rural population. Medical emergencies are scary situations but know that you can always trust onslow memorial hospital s emergency department for quality care.

It is the only government run emergency outpatient clinic service open on a 24 h basis and is the largest emergency outpatient clinic in the city.