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Ep 174 Is Less More? Saving EM and Traumatic Pneumothorax – Highlights from CAEP 2022

Emergency Medicine Cases

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The Lack of Hospital Beds in Emergency Departments

There's accessibility, increasing patient complexity and a rising burden of unmanaged chronic disease. A lack of beds for admitted patients is the biggest problem in emergency departments. But as Paul alluded, this problem is probably not as bad as we all think. The average emergency department in urban Canada has a high acuity access block of 46,000 hours per year.

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