Intro 6:00 a.m. — Alarm rings. Time to prepare for a potentially long day and night. 8:30 a.m. — At the clinic, routine gynecologic cases, such as annual exams and infections are seen 10:00 a.m. — pager goes off needing assistance to the emergency room to see a 30-year-old woman, who is 30 weeks pregnant. 10:15 a.m. — race from the clinic to the hospital, and discuss the modes of delivery she may need. 12:00 p.m. — A scheduled C-section on a 26-year-old. who has requested tubal sterilization. 2:00
really need to devise a better means of transport we are still 2 decks and 3 hallways away." The general seeing a crowd near the elevator they needed to get to the appropriate deck in his best take charge voice "yelled get out of the way medical emergency" Leading the others, I have the doors let’s go move it! Finally, the EMT’s were able to maneuver the gurney into the elevator. With a grunt of dissatisfaction the general activated the button for deck 5 with what seemed to take several minutes
In 2013, there were approximately 130 million emergency department visits in the USA. Of these visits, 23 million were patients less than 15 years of age and 30% of visits were classified as “injury visits.”1 Management of the anxious or fearful pediatric patient undergoing assessment and treatment for minor injuries is often a difficult problem faced by the healthcare provider, as many have no desire to participate in their treatment.2 Sedation has become more common-place for pediatric patients
sociology. I have chosen a career that I have a strong interest in which is a physician in the Emergency Room. The main requirements for getting the job in this career consist of a completed education, getting an undergraduate, finished medical school, a Emergency Medicine residency. In the area of licensure and certification they need are required a State Medical License and a Board Certification in Emergency Medicine. Other requirements that are necessary is a CME which stands for Continuing Medical
When going to an emergency room you are either very ill or there is a medical emergency going on that can be life altering for many people. When you add old age as a variable, the out come is normally not good. When the elderly do go into the hospital they normally have love ones surrounding them to add
Iowa Emergency Department the patient is added to the Epic computer system as a patient in the waiting room with a chief complaint. Behind a closed within view of the waiting area is the triage area staffed with one nurse and one patient care technician. The emergency department is divided into six pods made up of six to seven patient rooms in each designated pod. Each of the six pods are staffed with two nurses, one patient care technician, and a provider. While observing the emergency department
A recent experience in the emergency department while accompanying my mentally-ill brother helped me choose this topic of all others that I considered. The long hours in the waiting area and the amount of time it took for him to be committed to an inpatient psychiatric ward, was frustrating if not infuriating. And as part of the hospital staff personnel, I get to observe the potential problem that is causing the distress for patients, families, and the E.D. staff. After the deinstitutionalization
a newcomer view to the emergency department, one thought stands out: the services given in the ED are often not the intended use of the facility. I found numerous articles which examine overcrowding, patient expectations at triage (mostly wait times), and the high cost of care, with the common conclusion that many of the patients seen in the emergency room should not be there at all. Medicaid defines "Emergency Medical Condition" as a medical condition (including emergency labor and delivery) that
Emergency room overcrowding is a major issue throughout not just the United States but in many countries. There have been many strategies on how to combat this issue as patient satisfaction is often being a major variable on hospitals being reimbursed, which interventions are most helpful? One intervention that is gaining more and more popularity is advertising wait times. Through a PICO search with key words of “ED triage” and “patient satisfaction” or “wait times” provided some great original
Medical emergency is “a serious and unexpected situation involving illness or injury and requiring immediate action” (Oxford dictionary, 2016). This definition sheds light on the gravity of this state and the need for one to make split-second decisions in a bid to salvage the circumstance. Emergency care settings has one of the highest rate of errors in medical practice which is due to the complexities associated with diagnosis and the time pressure involved in managing critically sick patients (Bucknall