ER vs ED

To me--"ER" means Emergency Room-- and for most of us-- we are more than a room! We are a unit that specializes in emergency care of the sick and injured

Maybe we should be EU nurses!

I use both depending on what I can pull out my brain first.

I think the problem with ED is all those commercial on these days.

I remember the old days, when I was young, the ER was just a room. You didn't usually have a doctor assigned to it. If you came in they called someone on call or your primary to come in. It wasn't the big trauma center/department that it is these days. Probably in the smaller hospitals you still will see it referenced as ER.

I just use ED. I'm used to it now.

BTW, love the Sarcasm Shop site. I would get in trouble for wearing some of the shirts featured though.

ER is an American term in Ireland it was A&E - accident and emergency and before that Casualty. Same in Australia.

Now it is ED. I'm usually fairly quick to pick up on those double meanings but I suppose we don't see those ads here on billboards or TV so it never clicked!!

We call ours EC =Emergency Center.

I use ED and ER interchangeably.

What's the spread? Any injury reports? Gotta know before I can bet.

there is a hospital near where I work that uses ECU - emergency care unit

It's Emergency Center at all three of the hospitals in the system I work for. Most places around here use Unit or Department - nobody that I know of has a Room anymore, except in advertising.

there is a hospital near where I work that uses ECU - emergency care unit

My hospital has an ECU - but it stands for Eternal Care Unit. Yes folks, that would be the morgue. I work at a Catholic hospital, so I guess that's why they call it that.

ER and ED are used interchangeably where I work. Throughout the rest of the hospital we are referred to as the ER, when someone is paged overhead they are paged to the ER, my name badge says Emergency Room and actually we in the ER call it the "room." That being said I think it's just an old school term that people never lost. We have 45 beds (not including the hall "beds" that are usually full) so we are a decent sized ED. All of our paper work says Emergency Department on it and all of our admins have cards and signs on their doors that say ED. Maybe we're just confused where I work.