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Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to the primary cause of postponing patients’ surgery waiting time in the emergency room.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to "Taiwan Healthcare Indicator Series”, emergency surgery’s waiting time must be less than 30 minutes.
must be less than 30 minutes. However, the waiting time of emergency surgery is usually prolonged; and it not only
affects the patient's rights but have also delays medical treatment of patients.
Objective: This study analyzes the primary cause of postponing patients’ surgery waiting time in the emergency room.
Method: A total of 476 emergency surgical cases investigated from January to June 2009. 281(p=59.0%), whose
emergency surgery’s waiting time was longer than 30 minutes. The primary causes of the postponing of the emergency
surgery were analyzed.
Result: In this research, two factors of postponing the patients’ surgery waiting time were found, including the staff factor
and equipment factor. The main causes include patient’s lack of time for NPO(n=80, p=28.5%), the lack of free
emergency operation rooms(n=64, p=22.8%) and busy physicians(n=47, p=16.7%).
Conclusions The findings of this study may contribute to establishing a more secure and efficient emergency medical
environment and improve the quality of emergency medical care. Some strategies were suggested. Managers have to
regard the proposed respondents, clarify the definition of the emergency surgery, and establish the operation codes on
ER. Therefore, the nurse can effectively apply the time to prepare patient and family in order to reduce their anxiety.
Disclosure of Interest: None Declared
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