Emergency department wait times have reached a record high while hospitals and paramedics in NSW are treating record numbers with life-threatening conditions.
Patients are waiting longer than ever before in the state’s emergency departments, while hospitals and paramedics are treating record numbers with the most life-threatening conditions.
Emergency staff scrambled to resuscitate 6385 “triage 1” patients, 700 more than the same three-month period last year, while juggling an additional 117,949 “triage 2″ patients needing treatment within 10 minutes of presenting. “Just imagine working in a system where you’re seeing critical patient after critical patient with no time to debrief or decompress,” she said. “That’s putting an enormous amount of pressure on our senior doctors and nurses.”
NSW Health Acting Deputy Secretary Joanne Edwards said she was confident in the ability of emergency staff to deal with the increasing severity of cases, although she conceded it was frustrating for the community experiencing increased wait times.
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