2023-11-08 18:28:29
By Soline Roy
Published 51 minutes ago, Updated 39 minutes ago
The geriatric population, which represents a quarter of emergency room admissions, is very particular. AMELIE-BENOIST / IMAGE POINT FR / BSIP via AFP
DECRYPTION – In a comment associated with the study carried out with patients over 75, two American doctors outline three solutions which all show that it is the entire system that needs to be rethought.
A risk of dying increased by 40%: this, for those over 75, is the price of a night in the emergency room waiting for a hospital bed. And there are many of these patients passing long hours on a stretcher : « It’s our daily life, we meet them everywhere in our corridors », explains Dr Mélanie Roussel, emergency doctor at Rouen University Hospital. In 2018, more than 100,000 patients spent a night in the emergency room due to lack of space in a healthcare service, according to a count from the Samu-Urgences de France union.
Discomfort, noise, light and agitation have very concrete consequences, shows a study carried out with patients over 75 years old. The risk of dying in hospital increases in this population from 11.1% to 15.7% after one night or more in the emergency room, and the risk of adverse events (falls, infections within 48 hours after arrival at the hospital emergencies, hemorrhages, cardiovascular accidents, bedsores and metabolic disorders) from 23.5% to 30.4%. There…
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