ideal ER lengths of stay?

[caesar ursic]

So let me get this straight, Ron:  Unless my hospital sees a high enough
volume of critically-injured patients to justify the expense of maintaining
an trauma-dedicated OR (always on stand-by, always available) with the
concommitant personel also alwyas on stand-by (nurses, techs,
anesthesiologists), then my hospital shouldn't be seing trauma patients?
Really?  Do you realize that you've just eliminated most, if not all, level
III trauma centers (and many level II trauma centers) in this country?

C. Ursic
Santa Fe
USA


On 10/12/07, Ronald Gross <Rgross at harthosp.org> wrote:
>
> Not if your OR has a dedicated room for trauma, and a staff that deals
> with these cases every day.  And if you don't, then the patient shouldn't be
> in your ED, unless you are the only place within a couple of hundred miles.
>