Topic > The importance of emergency departments in healthcare…

We also have maintenance workers who double as security in the main emergency department. Pre-hospital emergency services function as an extension of our emergency rooms. They transport patients to and from emergency rooms and help facilitate quality patient care in our communities. For example, they have the ability to fax a 12-lead ECG to the emergency room to notify an ST-elevation myocardial infarction, often allowing the time from home to cath lab to be less than 10 minutes. The main emergency department also has access to a trauma team, which is a team of hospital staff, including the house supervisor, the intensive care unit charge nurse, the surgeon, the respiratory therapist, the laboratory technician, the of radiology and the chaplain who responds to any moderate or severe emergency. trauma. Our specialty physicians include orthopedists, pulmonologists, neurologists, pediatricians, cardiologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists/obstetricians, ENTs, pain management specialists, hematology/oncologists, and interventional radiologists. Neither emergency room has a full-time housekeeping service, so nurses and PCTs are responsible for cleaning the rooms and keeping the department clean. The housekeeping service is only responsible for cleaning rooms that require specialized treatment, such as insulation