Emergency rooms in clinics completely overcrowded

Emergency rooms in Bavarian clinics are completely overcrowded

02/14/2015

In hospitals in Bavaria alarm is beaten: in almost all emergency departments there are currently bottlenecks. Although the current flu epidemic and too few staff are complicit in the misery, but especially emergencies that are not, lead to the problem. Unfortunately, the phenomenon is not new.

Bottlenecks in Bavarian emergency rooms

Currently there are often bottlenecks in the emergency departments of Bavarian hospitals. As the news agency dpa reported, said the managing director of the Bavarian Hospital Society, Siegfried Hasenbein, on Friday in Munich: „The problem that the emergency rooms are overcrowded and there are problems there, we have in almost all regions of Bavaria.“ As communicated, several factors are to blame. „One of the main reasons is that emergency rooms are congested and busy with patients who are not hospital admissions because they are classic outpatient emergencies.“

Every fifth patient is mistaken in the emergency department
Hasenbein criticized: „However, patients are less and less taking on outpatient on-call service, but are going directly to the clinics.“ Unfortunately, this problem is not new. According to a study from 2013, about 20 percent of patients who have been treated in an emergency department of a hospital could also be provided with other care. According to extrapolations of the German Society for Interdisciplinary Emergency and Acute Medicine (DGINA), around one quarter of the German population visits an emergency room at least once a year, it was said at that time.

Staff shortages and influenza are other reasons
Another reason for the shortages in the emergency rooms is staff shortages. On the one hand, this results from the shortage of skilled workers and, on the other hand, it is also due to the insufficient financing of precisely those cases that actually belonged to the outpatient emergency care instead of the hospital. The current flu epidemic is the third reason Hasenbein added. According to the information, every year around 20 million people come to the emergency room of a hospital nationwide. „About half of them are unquestionably hospitalized“, so rabbit leg. „Of the remaining 10 million, around half is unquestionably not in a hospital.“ These are downcast on Bavaria almost a million cases a year.

Retire convicts prematurely
The houses in Nuremberg and Fürth belong according to dpa to the particularly concerned clinics. They placed an emergency call on Friday themselves: „At the moment, because of the patient influx, we are really under the land“, explained the board of the Nuremberg Hospital, Alfred Estelmann. Patients would be left in the corridors, treatments would be postponed and those leaving the convalese prematurely released. „The measures we have built are exhausted, so we have to say: we can not accept all who want us.“ Again, the annual flu epidemic, which is currently flanked by a rampant norovirus, a reason. Recently, another problem has been reported, with emergency departments in particular having to deal with clinics. Accordingly, there are more and more violent attacks by patients. From insults and threats, sexual assaults, spitting and scratching to the throwing of glasses, infusion bottles and furniture everything is there. (Ad)