We do not have a no-bed problem. We have an ineffective triage problem

Posted 2 hours ago by

MyJoyOnline

I spent most of my clinical career overseas, much of it in stroke care. One lesson sticks. In any well-run AE in the world, the bed is the last thing the patient needs. The first thing they need is to be sorted at the door. When the ambulance arrives at a major teaching hospital in a system that takes triage seriously, the patient is met at the door by a triage nurse running a structured scoring system.