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Twelve stretchers in the corridor and no beds

Dodici barelle in corridoio e nessun posto letto · Healthcare · Advanced

The case

You are the physician in charge of the emergency department shift. At 2 p.m. the situation is this: twelve patients already assessed and needing admission are stuck on stretchers in the corridor, some for over twenty hours, because the wards have no beds; new arrivals keep coming; the staff is exhausted and spends half its time managing boarding patients instead of new ones; an elderly woman on a stretcher since yesterday is decompensating. The wards, called one by one, answer they are full. Medical management is informed and responds with memos. What do you do, today and structurally?

Sei il medico responsabile del turno in pronto soccorso. Alle 14 la situazione è questa: dodici pazienti già visitati e con indicazione al ricovero sono fermi su barelle in corridoio, alcuni da oltre venti ore, perché i reparti non hanno posti letto; i nuovi arrivi continuano; il personale è allo stremo e passa metà del tempo a gestire i pazienti in attesa invece dei nuovi; un'anziana in barella da ieri si sta scompensando. I reparti, chiamati uno a uno, rispondono che sono pieni. La direzione sanitaria è informata e risponde con circolari. Cosa fai, oggi e strutturalmente?

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