Emergency Department, Cabrini Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Oct;31(5):886-888. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13328. Epub 2019 Jun 2.
We describe a novel ambulance diversion programme, piloted in Victoria. This article discusses creating increased emergency capacity during surge or disasters by utilising private EDs, tested during a recent thunderstorm asthma disaster and an influenza epidemic. Public hospitals and EDs often run at or over capacity during normal operations. This leaves limited ability to manage surges in demand, resulting in suboptimal outcomes for patients, public ED staff and ambulance services. It is feasible to create surge capacity in private EDs for public ambulance patients. Other states could consider this option to help manage health disasters.
我们描述了一个在维多利亚州试点的新的救护车分流计划。本文讨论了在最近的雷雨哮喘灾害和流感流行期间，利用私立急诊室来增加紧急情况下的应急能力，这是一个新的尝试。公立医院和急诊室在正常运作期间经常处于满负荷或超负荷运转状态。这使得应对需求激增的能力有限，导致患者、公共急诊室工作人员和救护车服务的结果不理想。为公共救护车患者在私立急诊室创造应急能力是可行的。其他州可以考虑这种选择来帮助应对卫生灾难。
