MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s Emergency Medicine Department provides exceptional medical care for both adults and children. With expert physicians and experienced nurses, we offer comprehensive emergency evaluations and treatments—all within a caring and compassionate environment.

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Health News You Can Use

Emergency Medicine writes informative articles about various medical issues that their team commonly encounter. With useful tips and reminders, one or more of these articles may contain information that you can use.

Preventing and Treating Burns … and Knowing When to Call the Experts
Here’s the good news: Over the past few decades, the number and severity of burn injuries we see in the emergency department has declined. Read More

Getting Enough Sleep?
Good sleep is crucial to our health and well-being. Our bodies and minds “heal” while sleeping. Immune function, growth, and protein synthesis are all directly related to restful sleep. Read More

Young Athletes and Concussions — What You Need to Know
As parents, we understand that sports help children stay active, build coordination and learn important life skills like teamwork and discipline. However, playing sports can be risky. With sports participation by children on the rise, so are sports-related injuries.Read More

Be Safe With Spring Cleaning
Spring is here, and as the days get longer, gardening, home maintenance and spring cleaning are on many weekend agendas.Read More

Rheumatoid Arthritis—Not Your Grandmother’s Rheumatism
Rheumatism. At some point, each of us has heard the term used by our parents, grandparents or even Granny Clampett from television’s The Beverly Hillbillies.Read More

Treating Pregnancy Emergencies
Most pregnancies proceed normally and end happily with the birth of a healthy baby.Read More

Nutrition and Body Weight
Keeping your weight down is not just for looks. Read More

Seizures 101
Witnessing a seizure is disconcerting—an experience one is not likely to forget.   Read More

Pain From Kidney Stones?
Many of us have kidney stones that we will never know are there.Read More