The unit clerk explained to me the flow procedure on intake of patients. Except for Walk-In Clinic patients, an ambulance from another hospital brings the patient to the hospital. County Hospital does not send an ambulance on the street after a patient
. There are 20 cubicles to treat the patients in the large Emergency Room. In the middle are three areas for STAT cases, cardiac arrest, auto accidents, overdoses, and a whole team of paramedics and physicians can be summoned at once. At the entry to th
e E.R. is a clerical staff typing identification data into a computer and
the typed reply is to determine if the patient has a previous record, or,
if not to begin a new one. It
is very well organized, he said.
I went back to the STAT area, A 26 year old woman sent in because she took 20 tablets of drugs was out. She had vomited with ipecac some fluid in the Red Blanket area.
Department of Emergency Medicine
