"Meek, Steve" wrote:
> In my opinion, Andrew, this is core emergency work.
We will probably have to agree to disagree over this one.
> If you can see a way to
> improve emergency care for patients attending your department, you should
> do it, regardless of territory or outdated definitions about core services.
> We didn't need extra staff, though to do it well I think you need three
> things - a single portal of entry, a 24 hour senior shop floor presence and
> an Obs Unit (the holy trinity of emergency medicine?)
I would want to do it well if I did it at all.
Most AEDs do not have a single portal of entry, 24 hour senior shopfloor
presence and an Obs Unit.
To provide this level of service would for the average UK AED require a very
considerable increase in staff. (Doubling was I admit a bit of rhetoric but I am
practising that for other purposes......)
BTW do you really mean 24 hour SENIOR shopfloor presence or are you confusing
middle grades with seniors?
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Andrew
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Andrew Hobart FRCS
Birmingham
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