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Saving Emergency Medicine Is Less More
The emergency departments are failing. triage lineups, packed waiting rooms, ambulance offload delays,. unacceptable treatment delays and frustrated patients leaving before they can be seen. Long, hot days and masks and PPE. Aerosol generating procedures on critical patients. Ventilated patients and screened positive patients blocked in the ED waiting for non-existent ICU or isolation beds. Nurses hitting the wall. Leaving emergency departments for more sustainable lives with growing staff shortages further depleting ED capacity. A vicious cycle of demand, dysfunction and distress that aggravates crowding, waiting times and left without being seen rates. Does this all sound familiar to you? Well, I'm just really impressed that our two