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Who, When, Why?—Traumatological Patients in the Emergency Department of a Maximum Care Provider
Nationwide, there is an annual increase in the number of patients in German emergency departments resulting in a growing workload for the entire emergency department staff. Several studies have investigated the situation in emergency departments, most of which were interdisciplinary, but there are n...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10607953/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37895428 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life13102046 |
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author | Hörauf, Jason-Alexander Schindler, Cora Rebecca Mühlenfeld, Nils Zabel, Julian Störmann, Philipp Marzi, Ingo Söhling, Nicolas Verboket, René Danilo |
author_facet | Hörauf, Jason-Alexander Schindler, Cora Rebecca Mühlenfeld, Nils Zabel, Julian Störmann, Philipp Marzi, Ingo Söhling, Nicolas Verboket, René Danilo |
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description | Nationwide, there is an annual increase in the number of patients in German emergency departments resulting in a growing workload for the entire emergency department staff. Several studies have investigated the situation in emergency departments, most of which were interdisciplinary, but there are no data on a solely traumatological patient population. The present study therefore aims to investigate the situation in a university-based trauma surgery emergency department. A total of 8582 traumatological patients attending a university hospital from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019 were studied. Various variables, such as reason for presentation, time of accident, diagnosis, and diagnostic as well as therapeutic measures performed were analyzed from the admission records created. The mean age was 36.2 years, 60.1% were male, 63.3% presented on their own to the emergency department, and 41.2% presented during regular working hours between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The most common reason for presentation was outdoor falls at 17.4%, and 63.3% presented to the emergency department within the first 12 h after the sustained trauma. The most common diagnosis was bruise (27.6%), and 14.2% of patients were admitted as inpatients. Many of the emergency room patients suffered no relevant trauma sequelae. In order to reduce the number of patients in emergency rooms in the future, existing institutions in the outpatient emergency sector must be further expanded and effectively advertised to the public. In this way, the emergency medical resources of clinics, including staff, can be relieved to provide the best possible care for actual emergency patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-106079532023-10-28 Who, When, Why?—Traumatological Patients in the Emergency Department of a Maximum Care Provider Hörauf, Jason-Alexander Schindler, Cora Rebecca Mühlenfeld, Nils Zabel, Julian Störmann, Philipp Marzi, Ingo Söhling, Nicolas Verboket, René Danilo Life (Basel) Article Nationwide, there is an annual increase in the number of patients in German emergency departments resulting in a growing workload for the entire emergency department staff. Several studies have investigated the situation in emergency departments, most of which were interdisciplinary, but there are no data on a solely traumatological patient population. The present study therefore aims to investigate the situation in a university-based trauma surgery emergency department. A total of 8582 traumatological patients attending a university hospital from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019 were studied. Various variables, such as reason for presentation, time of accident, diagnosis, and diagnostic as well as therapeutic measures performed were analyzed from the admission records created. The mean age was 36.2 years, 60.1% were male, 63.3% presented on their own to the emergency department, and 41.2% presented during regular working hours between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The most common reason for presentation was outdoor falls at 17.4%, and 63.3% presented to the emergency department within the first 12 h after the sustained trauma. The most common diagnosis was bruise (27.6%), and 14.2% of patients were admitted as inpatients. Many of the emergency room patients suffered no relevant trauma sequelae. In order to reduce the number of patients in emergency rooms in the future, existing institutions in the outpatient emergency sector must be further expanded and effectively advertised to the public. In this way, the emergency medical resources of clinics, including staff, can be relieved to provide the best possible care for actual emergency patients. MDPI 2023-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10607953/ /pubmed/37895428 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life13102046 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hörauf, Jason-Alexander Schindler, Cora Rebecca Mühlenfeld, Nils Zabel, Julian Störmann, Philipp Marzi, Ingo Söhling, Nicolas Verboket, René Danilo Who, When, Why?—Traumatological Patients in the Emergency Department of a Maximum Care Provider |
title | Who, When, Why?—Traumatological Patients in the Emergency Department of a Maximum Care Provider |
title_full | Who, When, Why?—Traumatological Patients in the Emergency Department of a Maximum Care Provider |
title_fullStr | Who, When, Why?—Traumatological Patients in the Emergency Department of a Maximum Care Provider |
title_full_unstemmed | Who, When, Why?—Traumatological Patients in the Emergency Department of a Maximum Care Provider |
title_short | Who, When, Why?—Traumatological Patients in the Emergency Department of a Maximum Care Provider |
title_sort | who, when, why?—traumatological patients in the emergency department of a maximum care provider |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10607953/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37895428 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life13102046 |
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