The Department of Emergency Medicine at Chazhikattu Hospital is a state-of-the-art facility to meet the needs of a high-volume, secondary care patient population. The institute serves an average of 60000 patients per year, 365 days a year and 24 hours a day. The Department of Emergency Medicine offers some of the most advanced technologic and therapeutic modalities available in emergency medicine, including bedside ultrasound, a highly sophisticated advanced airway management system, a filmless digital radiology system, a scientifically designed briefing area, patient status update for the bystanders in the waiting area.