Yesterday, a man was shot a couple of miles from our hospital. Not an unusual event, people get shot every day in America’s large cities. Our hospital is not a designated trauma center but we still have gunshot victims dropped off at our front lobby by their friends – either they die in our ER or we […]
DAWN To Prevent The Dead
Every day in Ohio, 5 people die of drug overdoses. We see heroin overdoses in or ER every day. The lucky ones are brought in when they are still breathing and before they get brain damage. The unlucky ones get resuscitated in the ER and make it to the ICU but then die from anoxic […]
Psychiatric Surge
No matter what your political leanings, one thing we can all agree on is that the United States does not have enough inpatient psychiatric beds. De-institutionization of patients with psychiatric disease in the 1970’s has overall been a good thing for most patients with psychiatric disease but the consequence is that there are many patients […]
The Vital Signs Of The Emergency Department
Is your emergency department sick or is it healthy? If you want to know if a patient is sick, you start with the vital signs. Emergency departments are the same except that the vital signs are data and you have to know what data you need to know in order to assess the health and […]