Emergency Department

OSU Medical Center (OSUMC) provides Level 3 trauma services capable of treating advanced trauma patients from Tulsa and the surrounding region.

A full-time staff of five board certified emergency medicine physicians provides the core medical direction for the 18-bed unit. A specialized four-bed Chest Pain Evaluation Unit (CPEU) allows us to fully evaluate patients with complaints of chest pain and respond quickly and efficiently to cardiac emergencies. In addition, the emergency department provides a 5-bed Urgent Care Fast Track area which allows us to reduce wait time for those non-emergent cases.

Specialists from 10 different areas including internal medicine, orthopedics, ENT, pediatrics, surgery, ophthalmology, GI, cardiology, interventional radiology and OB/Gyn are on call 24 hours a day to provide consultation with the emergency department physicians.

The OSUMC nursing staff is one of the most highly skilled groups in Tulsa with a large percentage of staff members possessing advanced certification in emergency care. The OSUMC emergency department is one of two dedicated facilities that serve as receiving stations for the Air Evac Life Team, air ambulance service. The helicopter and mobile intensive care ground units provide critical care transport services throughout eastern Oklahoma.