Crowded emergency departments pose greater risks for patients with heart attacks
Friday, June 5, 2009 - 11:14
in Health & Medicine
Patients with heart attacks and other forms of chest pain are three to five times more likely to experience serious complications after hospital admission when they are treated in a crowded emergency department (ED), according to a new study published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine. The authors say that this dramatic difference in rates of serious complications underscores the need for action on the part of hospital administrators, policymakers and emergency physicians to find solutions to what has been termed 'a national public health problem.' More than six million patients per year come to U.S. emergency departments with chest pain...
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