Among all patients with confirmed AMI only 58% were directly admitted to CCU.
Directly admitted patients had their intake and output and their temperature noted with greater frequency.
Transfer patients were more severely injured than directly admitted patients (p < 0.001).
Results: In all 1.592 patients were admitted to hospital for chest pain, of whom 1.136 (71%) were not directly admitted to the CCU.
Results: Patients held in the emergency department had their blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation recorded with greater frequency compared with patients who were directly admitted.
Conclusion: In a Swedish university hospital, more than two thirds of patients hospitalized for acute chest pain were not directly admitted to the CCU.
These patients differed from those directly admitted to the CCU, being older, including more women, having a higher prevalence of known congestive heart failure and a lower degree of initial suspicion of acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
For example, is there a difference in the timeliness of nursing assessments and initial antibiotic administration for patients with pneumonia who are held in the emergency department compared with those who are directly admitted to an inpatient bed?
Specifically, exogenously arriving data is not directly admitted to the network layer.
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STEMI patients are intended to be directly admitted to the cathlab, irrespective of the presence of cardiogenic shock or resuscitation.
