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Any acute injury or illness that poses an immediate risk to a person's life or long-term health is known as an Emergency. Medical emergencies / Casualties are life-threatening situations that when not managed timely may prove to be fatal.1 Historically, the original term "casualty" meant a seriously injured patient. It was predominantly a military word and the accidents after a battle, the dead, the wounded, and the sick were generalized together as “casualties”.1 The casualty ward was described as early as in the year 1837 in the writings of Shakespeare and Dickens. Baron Dominique Jean Larrey (1766–1842), Napoleon's chief surgeon brought in the concept of collecting and treating all the injured in an area close to the front line by quickly evacuating them by fast light horse drawn vehicles known as the “Ambulances volantes”.1 The early examples of specialisation in this field were done by Harry Plattin Manchester by the establishment of separate fracture clinics in 1913–14.2 Since then, clinicians all over the world desired to provide the highest quality of emergency care.