Emergency Medicine at Penn
 

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Emergency Medicine at Penn

Emergency medicine services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week at all three Penn hospitals.

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is a Level 1 Trauma Center and provides state-of-the-art support for trauma patients, cases and emergencies. The departments of Emergency Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center provide a full range of critical care, medical and surgical evaluations. Physicians are board-certified in emergency medicine and/or internal medicine and have experience in the evaluation and stabilization of complex, undifferentiated medical or surgical problems.

For more information:

Hyperbaric Medicine Center
Our multidisciplinary facility, known as the Institute for Environmental Medicine, includes a clinical treatment area, and state-of-the-art laboratory oriented toward biochemistry, cell biology and molecular genetics. For more information, explore the Hyperbaric Medicine web site.

Chief: Stephen Thom, MD, PhD


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