Acute Care Services
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Mosby's Medical Dictionary (2009) defines ‘acute care' as a pattern of health care in which a patient is treated for a brief but severe episode of illness, such as that after an accident, trauma, and post-surgery recovery.... The patients are cases of trauma, injuries, accidents, acute depression, epilepsy, stroke, cardiac block, coronary blockage, neonatal intensive care, diarrhoea, gastrointestinal episodes such as food poisoning, insect bite, and many general problems needing immediate attention for medical interventions....