KevinMD October 13, 2024
Today, most emergency departments (EDs) face overcrowding, high patient volumes and a strain on our increasingly limited staff and resources. As a result, the average patient experiences ED wait times of about two-and-a-half hours, with some reaching nearly four hours.
The possibility of sepsis makes these delays even trickier. More than one-third of all in-hospital deaths are attributed to sepsis, making it the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals. But addressing sepsis isn’t so straightforward. A confluence of variables results in patients either being underdiagnosed – which means they can quickly deteriorate, face organ damage, and have to be readmitted – or misdiagnosed, which leads to overtreating patients with broad-spectrum antibiotics and overlooking the patient’s true condition.
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