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Patients are treated based on how urgent their health care needs are in this order: Life threatening – cardiac arrest, major trauma, unconsciousness or non-responsive, limb amputation. Emergent – head injury, spinal cord injury, heart attack, high fever in infant less than 3 months old. Urgent – dislocated shoulder, asthma, seizure ...
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Dec 30, 2022 · At GGH, for hip replacements, the average wait time from consultation with a specialist to surgery is 292 days, or 41 weeks. Knee replacement surgery is even longer, at 346 days. Skinner believes the demand for these surgeries is “due to the demographic shift in our population age. As we age, the need to access these surgeries increases.”.
Jan 12, 2024 · GGH said over the last 30 days, a patient waited about five hours to see a physician, up from the 3.7 hours during the same period of time last year. And for those who need to be admitted, the wait has been cut down, but it’s nowhere near where the hospital wants to be. “In the last seven days, patients who came to the hospital and needed ...
Managing your pain. During your stay, a staff member will assess your pain using a numeric pain scale of 0 to 10 or a visual face chart. A score of 0 is no pain and a score of 10 is the worst possible pain. Be sure to discuss your pain and possible pain management options with your health care team.
Guelph, ON – August 28, 2023 – Guelph General Hospital (GGH) has been working diligently over the past several months to reduce the time patients wait with a paramedic crew in the hospital. This happens when there is no space available in the Emergency Department for care to be transferred to hospital staff; a process called Offloading.
11. Reply. icebiker. • 2 yr. ago. To directly answer your question: 5-6am on a weekday is typically the least busy. But you should really just go to a walk-in clinic. The ER is for, well, emergencies. As in, this can't wait for a couple days. If you can schedule your visit to the ER, you shouldn't be going to the ER.
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