Maximum emergency department overcrowding is correlated with occurrence of unexpected cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency department overcrowding negatively impacts critically ill patients and could lead to the occurrence of cardiac arrest. However, the association between emergency department crowding and the occurrence of in-hospital cardiac arrest has not been thoroughly investigated. This study aimed to evaluate the correlation between emergency department occupancy rates and the incidence of in-hospital cardiac arrest.

Methods

A single-center, observational, registry-based cohort study was performed including all consecutive adult, non-traumatic in-hospital cardiac arrest patients between January 2014 and June 2017. We used emergency department occupancy rates as a crowding index at the time of presentation of cardiac arrest and at the time of maximum crowding, and the

SUBMITTER: Kim JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7276085 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature