Open AccessFrom emergency department to intensive care unit, does the delay matter to trauma patients?
Author(s) -
Kapil Dev Soni,
Gaurav Kaushik,
Amit Gupta,
Vishwajeet Singh,
Subodh Kumar,
Sushma Sagar
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/jets.jets_132_17
Subject(s) - emergency department , intensive care unit , medical emergency , medicine , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , nursing
Emergency department (ED) overcrowding with critically ill trauma patients has been a major concern globally. It has been shown that longer stays in the hospital before Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission have a higher mortality rate.