Question

Suppose your hospital suddenly he sees an increase in emergency room patients and you are on a committee to investigate the problem and relieve pressure on the ER how would you approach?

Answer 1

The sudden increase of patients in emergency room can be caused due to various different reason in any hospital. If there is a sudden increase in the patients in emergency room of my hospital I would be more concerned about the cause of it and would like to start with the investigation of it rather. The cause might be any kinds of road traffic accidents or any cases of positioning or suicides. Nowadays increase in the accident rates has increased in a very large amount. And the cases of suicides of the adolescents and young adults are coming on daily basis. It is one of the most important reasons on why the rate of patients in the emergency unit has increased. It has become a trend of rough driving and commiting suicide in these groups of people. It would be my responsibility to understand the situation and try to find out a way to help people think out of it.

The pressure on the staff memebers of ER during this time is very high and heavy. They have responsibility of the patient who are in grave danger. But if the staff during this hour is less, than it would mean imbalance in the staff patient ratio and the high chances of loosing the patient's lives. So hence being the incharge I would appoint more staffs in the ER ward during the peak hours and more over the experienced staffs should be appointed for this makes it more simple and very helpful.