急患

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 急患, read きゅうかん, is a patient whose urgent condition requires prompt examination or treatment.
• Basic usage: It refers to someone brought into emergency care or a patient a hospital is equipped to receive at night.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A patient needing urgent care
  • This denotes a patient brought for immediate treatment or one a hospital is prepared to receive at night. Urgency matters more than the specific illness.