Ideal ED length of stay? (information & communications support)

[KMATTOX at aol.com]

For an emergency room to keep ANY patient who obviously requires admission,  
is not the best use of the resources in that location, whether it be a 
critical  trauma patient, a heart attack, or a pneumonia.   If it is obvious as  to 
where the patient should go (trauma goes to a surgical service, either OR,  
floor, or ICU), then that patient can get the FAST, etc, at that secondary  
location and aid in the overcrowding of the EC.     
 
k



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