How to know when your system is efficient
Posted by GruntDoc on 29th July 2007
In EM, we’re constantly wondering if we’re seeing patients rapidly enough: nobody wants the MI who’s been sitting in the wating room for an hour, for example.
Today I saw a patient that told me we’re seeing patients rapidly. A patient called EMS with a somewhat less than urgent complaint, was transported to our ED, dropped off at triage, triaged, and placed in a room.
I still got there in time to see this patient sitting up and eating the middle third of their pint of ice cream, and it was still nice and frozen.
It’s a good system.
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