Emergency Department Services - Ambulance Diversion Trend

Ambulance moves when hospital emergency rooms can not take care of more patients. The emergency room "changes", the ambulance will be redirected to another hospital or medical facility. There are various kinds of transfer status. The type of transfer is defined by the regional emergency medical service, see the relevant resources for details. The dataset for each facility details whether the facility experienced some type of ambulance movement in the year and the number of hours the facility was in a moving state per month. (Note: the data in 2015 is provisional and has not been considered yet.These data will be updated in October 2016)

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Diversion of an ambulance is a temporary closure of a facility (usually the emergency department) to an ambulance. Since the 1990s, the emergency department throughout the country has increasingly relied on the movement of ambulances to cope with traffic jams in the emergency department. There are few data to document the adverse effects of ambulance movements but this method reduces the availability of EMS personnel, hinders selection of patient's hospital and prolongation of long-term care, prolonged ambulance delivery time, Congestion is promoted by. Organizations such as the American Emergency Medical Association (ACEP) and Medical Research Institute do not encourage the use of regular ambulances. The American Medical Research Institute insisted that in the 2006 US Emergency Medical Report, it will "relocate" unless it is in the most extreme situations like large casualties in the area. But transfer is not uncommon

Diversion of an ambulance is a controversial strategy to temporarily relax the overcrowding situation in the emergency department (ED). When the hospital calls the transfer status, future ambulances will be transferred to other facilities. In response to the congestion of the ED cited first in the 1990 medical journal article, the injured patient was taken to another nearby facility. At the time, diversion of ambulances was considered a relatively rare option to deal with accidents and crises, but this phenomenon often occurs in the next decade. According to the 2006 emergency medical yearbook survey, 45% of the US ED report was diverted last year in 2003, but in urban hospitals this percentage is close to 70%. In this survey, it is reported that about 500,000 cases of emergency transportation accidents occurred in 2003.