TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical care in an emergency department
AU - LeTourneau, Barbara
AU - Blegen, Carl N.
AU - Clinton, Joseph E.
AU - Ruiz, Ernest
PY - 1980/3
Y1 - 1980/3
N2 - A one year review of resuscitation in an emergency department (ED) was conducted. In the stabilization room (SR) within the ED at Hennepin County Medical Center, 852 cases were treated in the year ending July 31, 1978. There were 166 deaths in the SR (19.5%) overall, and 141 (47.9%) and 16 (5.3%) for cardiac and trauma cases, respectively. The 32 fatal cases of blunt trauma (six in the SR, 10 within 24 hours, and 16 late deaths) were reviewed and assigned an injury severity score (ISS). Of these, 12 deaths were unrelated to central nervous system causes. These had an average ISS of 42.8.
AB - A one year review of resuscitation in an emergency department (ED) was conducted. In the stabilization room (SR) within the ED at Hennepin County Medical Center, 852 cases were treated in the year ending July 31, 1978. There were 166 deaths in the SR (19.5%) overall, and 141 (47.9%) and 16 (5.3%) for cardiac and trauma cases, respectively. The 32 fatal cases of blunt trauma (six in the SR, 10 within 24 hours, and 16 late deaths) were reviewed and assigned an injury severity score (ISS). Of these, 12 deaths were unrelated to central nervous system causes. These had an average ISS of 42.8.
KW - critical care, emergency department v. resuscitation unit
KW - resuscitation unit, critical care
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U2 - 10.1016/S0196-0644(80)80266-6
DO - 10.1016/S0196-0644(80)80266-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 7362101
AN - SCOPUS:0018819240
SN - 0196-0644
VL - 9
SP - 126
EP - 130
JO - Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians
JF - Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians
IS - 3
ER -