All priority ii patients are managed here.
Emergency room waiting area.
Why can t someone just look at it that just shows you have no idea how the e r.
American patients spend about two hours on average in the emergency department ed and more than half an hour in the waiting area.
Patients who check into a hospital s emergency room er often experience long wait times.
Please remember we provide care to the most critical cases first.
All priority i patients are managed here.
People who are vomiting their guts out get a room more quickly.
This area will have dedicated em physicians along with em nursing staff looking after the patients.
Nurse all i have is this cut on my finger.
These wait times are mainly due to the triage process that s required for hospital admission patient boarding waiting for a bed shortage of medical staff and sometimes an abnormally high number of patients from local accidents or disasters.
In part three of his ongoing series saving america s hospitals.
The estimated waiting time to see a physician in emergency is approximate and is for informational purposes only.
Major trauma medical area.
Sault area hospital s wait time clock lets people know the amount of patients being treated the amount of patients currently waiting and the amount of time that this means a new patient would have to wait.
A patient maybe shifted to the resus area from outside or from an area within the hospital or emergency department itself.
The admitting clerks don t like vomit in the waiting area joan somes r n st.