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If you want to understand the state of healthcare especially in Massachusetts, read this article. Many hospitals are experiencing this. If you google longest wait times in the nation, MA is second or third on the list nation wide for having the longest wait times in the country.

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Last year, the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department (ED) saw 119,124 patients. Since October, we have been at capacity disaster (60+ patients waiting for an inpatient bed) 92% - and 80% of the days over the last 12 months. The median time from diagnosis to being brought up to a floor is nine hours. While our mission is to provide care to every patient crossing our threshold, the nationwide capacity crisis situation continues to put enormous pressure on our health system, but on every urban, large hospital system. ED experts share their insights with Boston Globe Media on potential solutions and discuss why various elements are creating the perfect storm. http://spklr.io/6047mfxH

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The survival rates of ill and injured children are far higher in emergency departments with the highest readiness levels—optimal coordination of care, top-trained personnel, explicit procedures, and advanced medical equipment—than in hospitals with low readiness levels. Learn more about the study funded by The National Institutes of Health at https://go.nih.gov/jyAtPid. #EMSForChildrenDay #NICHDimpact

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Avoid the health advisory from the New York State Department of Health and streamline your cardiac arrest response by choosing an AED that has universal electrode pads. Having to swap out regular AED pads for child pads during a cardiac arrest response takes valuable time away from the rescue attempt, time that a person in cardiac arrest just does not have. Make sure your AED has Child Mode to quickly and seamlessly attenuate the energy to a level that's appropriate for children. #AviveAdvantagehttps://bit.ly/3JRKLWo #NYstate #healthadvisory

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The long-anticipated healthcare "silver tsunami" has arrived. Monthly US emergency department visits increased 24.8% between January 2019 and May 2024, according to data from the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Per Gist Healthcare | Kaufman Hall: Year-to-date 2024 hospital volumes have substantially increased across all admission types relative to 2022, with emergency department (ED) volumes rising the most at 13.7%. After facing considerable declines during the pandemic, monthly ED volumes have been at their highest levels since the pandemic began, with February 2024 seeing nearly 29% more ED visits than February 2022, which was a particularly slow month for EDs. Notably, the acuity of patients visiting the ED has also increased slightly since before the pandemic, countering the idea that non-emergent cases are driving the utilization increase. #emergencymedicineAmerican Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants (SEMPA)American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners (AAENP)Society of Physician EntrepreneursEmergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA)

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Emergency departments are often overcrowded and under-supported, a reality that even the physicians working in these settings are now publicly highlighting. They are speaking out about the inhumanity and injustice faced by vulnerable patients. The causes are complex and multifactorial, but even more frustrating is that solutions are hindered by a reimbursement and regulatory system that stifles competition and innovation in emergency medicine.Public officials often ignore how large hospitals control the rules for building a care system. Despite the clear injustice within hospitals, the system remains resistant to change. As a result, we see critically ill patients left on stretchers in hallways and public areas of hospital-owned emergency departments for hours, sometimes days. Is this how we want to treat our frailest patients? I certainly don't think so.WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? ▶️ https://lnkd.in/erYZPxG5

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This thoughtful young ER doctor brilliantly captured the cruelty, causes, and consequences of ER crowding. It persists because our healthcare system’s priorities are revenue maximization and accommodation of better-paying elective admissions. As a result, countless seriously ill and injured ER patients, young and old, who need hospitalization are forced to languish in emergency department treatment bays or even hallways for hours or days on end until a bed is available. Meanwhile, new arrivals keep coming, leading to dangerous ER crowding. The toll this takes on patients, their families, and the dedicated ER nurses and docs who do their best to help them is incalculable. Moral injury is rampant.The only thing missing from the story is how long this has gone on. More than 30 years ago I served on ACEPs first overcrowding task force. Throughout my career at every level from front line doctor and ER director to department chair, dean and for a time, health system CEO I pushed for change. So have many others. Policy efforts included journal articles, Hill briefings, a major 3 report series by the National Academy of Medicine, congressional hearings and meetings with AHA, CMS, TJC, quality assurance organizations and many, many others. Resistance has always been passive (no one dares publicly state that the status quo is acceptable), but meaningful action has not followed. Three decades on, it is one of the keenest disappointments of my career. I hope and pray that American healthcare will finally grow a conscience and fix this problem. Emergency physicians and nurses can’t do it alone.https://lnkd.in/e8pEQVRT

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Alarming statistics for sepsis! Know the symptoms; seek emergency help as early as possible!! Confusion/altered mental status, hypotension, fever, rapid respirations, rapid heart rate , decreased urinary output, and cold, clammy skin.

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