Today, most emergency departments (EDs) face overcrowding, high patient volumes and a strain on our increasingly limited staff and resources. As a result, the average patient experiences ED wait times of about two-and-a-half hours, with some reaching nearly four hours. The possibility of sepsis makes these delays even trickier. More than one-third of all in-hospital deaths
The deadliest condition in emergency departments deserves a new diagnostic approach originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
