As emergency rooms worldwide are flooded with a wave of new COVID-19 patients, a large study in the United Kingdom has laid out the deadly consequences of delayed critical care.
patients, a large study in the United Kingdom has laid out the deadly consequences of delayed critical care.Nearly 27 million individuals attended a major emergency room in England from 2016 to 2018, waiting on average just under five hours for a course of action. This is despite a four-hour operational standard adopted by the National Health Service back in 2004.
If a patient had to wait between six to eight hours, they were, on average, 8 percent more likely to die of any cause in the next 30 days. That's one extra death for every 82 patients who weren't treated within six hours. "Let nobody be in doubt any longer, the [NHS] four-hour operational target is, as many of us have always known, of key importance to patient safety,""Patients are, and will continue to be, grateful for it and for the publication of this paper."The same operational targets are also in place in other nations, like Australia and the United States, but that doesn't mean ERs consistently enforce the standards.
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