V současné době se vede široká diskuze o významu existence lékařské služby první pomoci (dále jen LSPP). Tendence směřují k jejich postupnému rušení. Cílem sdělení je zdůraznit potřebu existence těchto zařízeních ve večerních hodinách a o svátcích v místech, kde nejsou lůžková oddělení nemocnic, ovšem za předpokladu kvalitního personálního i technického vybavení. Metoda: Autoři podrobně zhodnotili tři pracoviště LSPP v Jihočeském kraji. Zajímali se o jejich personální a technické vybavení, frekvenci diagnóz u pacientů, organizační zajištění péče a o počty okamžitě odeslaných pacientů na vyšší pracoviště, tj. „ošetřím, vykážu a odešlu“. Z tohoto aspektu se hodnotila i kvalita ošetření a virtuální ekonomická náročnost. Výsledky: Po organizační a odborné analýze činnosti třech LSPP autoři dospěli k názoru, že existence těchto zařízeních ve večerních hodinách a o svátcích v místech, kde nejsou lůžková oddělení nemocnic je odůvodněná za předpokladu kvalitního personálního i technického vybavení. Závěr: Autoři na podkladě rozborů činností těchto třech zařízení navrhují, aby řádně vybavené a fungující LPPS v místech, kde není lůžkové oddělení, zůstaly zachované. Pro pacienty, zvláště v turistické sezóně je jejich existence výhodná a nevyžaduje komplikovaný kontakt s lékařem. Obavy o duplicitní platby za první ošetření jsou neopodstatněné.
The importance of the out-of-hours emergency services is widely discussed at the time. There is a tendency to cancel this type of service. The aim of the presented paper is to emphasize the necessary existence of these organizations during evenings, weekends and holidays in locations without inpatient departments of hospitals, provided the quality of equipment and personnel is of a high level. Methods: The authors performed a detailed evaluation of three out-of-hours emergency services located in the South-Bohemian Region. They were interested in staff members and equipment of these organizations, frequency of diagnoses in patients, management of patient care and numbers of patients directly referred to higher level facilities, i.e. “to examine, to report and to send off”. Quality of care and virtual economic demands were also evaluated from this point of view. Results: Based on organizational and professional analyses of the three out-of-hours emergency services, the authors concluded that the existence of these organizations is necessary during evenings, weekends and holidays in locations without inpatient departments of hospitals, provided the quality of equipment and personnel is of a high level. Conclusion: Based on analyses of activities of the three organizations, the authors suggest that appropriately equipped and functional out-of-hours emergency services should be maintained in locations without inpatient departments. Their existence is beneficial for the patients particularly during the tourist season when one needs not complicated contacts with physicians. Fear of duplicity in financial covering of the first line treatment is not justified.
BACKGROUND: Computed tomography (CT) is widely available in most hospitals, usually 24 h a day, which results in an expansion of its indications, sometimes beyond medically justifiable extent. AIM: To evaluate trends in emergency cranial CTs in a general university hospital during the last 15 years. METHODS: We conducted a database search for emergency cranial CTs between January 2000 and December 2015 that were performed in patients after head injury on weekends and bank holidays and between 8 P.M. and 6 A.M. on workdays. The numbers were compared with demographic data, the number of hospital beds, and total number of CT examinations. RESULTS: The annual number of emergency cranial CTs increased 5.5 times from 124 to 679 with a sharp increase since 2013. This trend showed a negative correlation with the number of hospital beds (r = -0.88, p = 0.0001), the proportion of important findings on cranial CT (r = -0.74, p = 0.0010), or the proportion of patients indicated for cranial CT by NICE 2014 criteria (r = -0.90, p < 0.0001) and positive correlation with the proportion of inebriated patients (r = 0.94, p < 0.0001), and their average GCS score (r = 0.92, p < 0.0001). Compared to the number of emergency cranial CTs, the slope of regression lines for all trends was significantly different (p < 0.001) apart from the number of inebriated patients (p = 0.062). CONCLUSIONS: The increase in the emergency cranial CTs cannot be entirely justified by their clinical need. We assume that this is the result of an absent support of adherence to the guidelines in the legislation together with a medicolegally unpredictable environment.
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- Craniocerebral Trauma diagnostic imaging epidemiology MeSH
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- integrovaná centra zdravotní péče,
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- Medical Staff, Hospital economics standards organization & administration statistics & numerical data utilization legislation & jurisprudence MeSH
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- Efficiency, Organizational standards trends MeSH
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