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A–Z alphabetical listing of human health emergency symptoms and signs.
What are various symptoms, signs, statements, questions, issues, and histories that should raise suspicion of a medical emergency?

There are at least 160 such symptoms, signs, statements, questions, issues, histories, and scenarios.
  1. Altered level of consciousness

  2. Airway obstruction

  3. Agitated Patient (Acute stress reaction.)

  4. Attempted suicide.

  5. Attempted homicide.

  6. Abuse.

  7. Abdominal Pain.(Stomach pain)

  8. Any sudden or severe pain.

  9. Animal bites (may require rabies or tetanus shot).

  10. Armed Robbery.

  11. Allergic reactions.

  12. Asphyxia

  13. Bradycardia

  14. Bradypnea

  15. Brain death

  16. Breathing difficulties.

  17. Behavior that is dangerous to self or others and cannot be managed.

  18. Bleeding from any orifice or any part of human body that will not stop.

  19. Bleeding which does not stop after applying pressure.

  20. Being beaten by someone.

  21. Burns.

  22. Bites.

  23. Bloody Sputum

  24. Broken bones.

  25. Behavior-related emergencies.

  26. Change in mental status (such as unusual behavior, confusion, and difficulty arousing).

  27. Changes in vision.

  28. Chest pain.

  29. Choking.

  30. Cough with fever.

  31. Coughing up or vomiting blood.

  32. Confusion or changes in mental status

  33. Cuts and abrasions.

  34. Chest or upper abdominal pain or pressure lasting two minutes or more.

  35. Difficulty breathing.

  36. Difficulty speaking.

  37. Disoriented.

  38. Difficulty getting up.

  39. Difficulty in passing urine.

  40. Difficulty in passing feces.

  41. Domestic Violence

  42. Drowning or near drowning

  43. Dental emergencies.

  44. Emergency diagnosis and treatment in neonatal period.

  45. Emergency diagnosis and treatment after neonatal period.

  46. Earaches and ear infections.

  47. Electrical injury shock.

  48. Emergency Food

  49. Environmental factors (hostile environment).

  50. Fainting.

  51. Fever.

  52. Foreign bodies in nose or ears.

  53. Fainting or loss of consciousness.

  54. Fainting, sudden dizziness, weakness, seizure.

  55. Feeling of committing suicide or murder.

  56. Fever with breathlessness.

  57. Functional impairment (not taking care of self. inability to gain relevant skills and knowledge relevant to age).

  58. Human Rights Violations

  59. Head or spine injury.

  60. Head injury.

  61. Human Pregnancy Emergencies

  62. Hypothermia - frostbite.

  63. Hypotension

  64. Head pain that lasts longer than five minutes.

  65. “High Blood Pressure” is rarely a chief complaint, but instead more commonly a physical finding.

  66. Intentional enforced harms.

  67. Involuntary admission to a psychiatric facility

  68. Irritability

  69. Loss of consciousness.

  70. Loss of consciousness not related to a seizure

  71. Loosening of social inhibitions.

  72. Loss of memory

  73. Loss of balance or coordination

  74. Likely to be harmful to self or others.

  75. Low abdominal pain.

  76. Medicine overdose.

  77. Medicolegal cases

  78. Nosebleeds.

  79. No pulse

  80. Pain.

  81. Palpitations.

  82. Poisoning.

  83. Poisoning including overdoses of medication.

  84. Persistent or severe vomiting.

  85. Persistent unexplained fever even with Tylenol use.

  86. Puncture wounds.

  87. Personality disorders (harmful to others). Panic attacks.

  88. Psychosis(delusions, hallucinations, catatonia, thought disorder, loss of contact with reality).

  89. Rape.

  90. Pregnancy-related emergencies.

  91. Possible serious bone fractures.

  92. Rashes.

  93. Restlessness

  94. Survival Needs

  95. Starvation

  96. Suicidal feelings.

  97. Surgical Emergencies

  98. Significant trauma (to the head, stomach, chest)

  99. Syncope.

  100. Seizure or convulsion

  101. Seizure lasting over five minutes or continuous seizures

  102. Severe asthmatic attack when prescribed medications do not work

  103. Severe injuries as a result of accidents such as broken bones

  104. Severe reactions to a medication with difficulty breathing or itching.

  105. Severe reactions to insect bites or other previously unknown allergic reactions

  106. Sore throat & fever

  107. Slurred speech

  108. Sunburn.

  109. Severe neck or back injury.

  110. Sexual intercourse due to conspiracy.

  111. Severe or persistent vomiting.

  112. Severe or persistent vomiting or diarrhea.

  113. Severe headache.

  114. Severe burns.

  115. Severe pain in any part of the body that does not subside.

  116. Serious drug reactions with psychiatric or non-psychiatric medications.

  117. Syncope or unconsciousness.

  118. Sudden or severe pain.

  119. Sudden loss of vision.

  120. Suicidal or homicidal feelings.

  121. Sudden asthma attack that does not stop.

  122. Sudden numbness or not being able to move an arm, leg, or one side of the body.

  123. Sever headache with fever or vomiting.

  124. Sudden injury or trauma due to a motor vehicle crash, burns, smoke inhalation, near drowning, wound, etc.

  125. Substance abuse.

  126. Sudden severe pain anywhere in the body.

  127. Sudden dizziness, weakness, or change in vision.

  128. Swallowing a poisonous substance.

  129. Shock symptoms, e.g., confusion, disorientation, cool/clammy, pale skin.

  130. Severe or persistent vomiting or diarrhea.

  131. Stroke or suspected stroke (paralysis, numbness, confusion)

  132. Tachycardia

  133. Tachypnea

  134. Throat Problems

  135. Trauma and Gunshot wounds: What you need to know to save a life.

  136. Trauma Ocular

  137. Trauma with unconsciousness.

  138. Trauma with cuts, sprains, or abrasions.

  139. Trauma with open fracture.

  140. Trauma with pain on mobility.

  141. Trauma with swelling.

  142. Trouble staying awake or alert

  143. Unable to detect breathing

  144. Unconsciousness.

  145. Unconsciousness with diabetes.

  146. Unconsciousness at a public location.

  147. Unusual behavior

  148. Sudden unconsciousness at home.

  149. Unable to move

  150. Uncontrolled bleeding

  151. Upper abdominal pain.

  152. Uncontrolled bleeding.

  153. Unusual abdominal pain.

  154. Unusual or persistent abdominal pain.

  155. Unexplained stupor, drowsiness or disorientation.

  156. Violence

  157. Violence or other rapid changes in behavior.

  158. Vomiting

  159. Vomiting or coughing blood.

  160. Vomiting and diarrhea.

Last Updated: August 20, 2016