Smith Ed, Dasan Sunil
Consultant, Emergency Department, Scarborough Hospital, Scarborough YO12 6QL.
Consultant, Department of Emergency Medicine, St George's Hospital, London.
Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2018 Sep 2;79(9):495-499. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2018.79.9.495.
Activity levels within emergency medicine, and the pressures experienced by individual clinicians working within the specialty, continue to increase year on year. In 2016-17 there were 18 691 546 attendances at UK emergency departments. Attendance numbers continue to increase annually, patients are becoming older and more unwell, departments are more crowded and as a result, emergency care standard performance figures are deteriorating. This article describes the impact of this pressure on the staff working within the emergency department and begins to explore the potential for the development of sustainability within the existing and future workforce.
急诊医学领域的工作强度以及该专业内个体临床医生所承受的压力逐年持续增加。2016 - 2017年，英国急诊科的就诊人次达18691546。就诊人数每年持续上升，患者年龄越来越大且病情越来越重，科室更加拥挤，因此，急诊护理标准绩效数据正在恶化。本文描述了这种压力对急诊科工作人员的影响，并开始探讨在现有及未来劳动力中发展可持续性的潜力。
