The average waiting time for emergency patients in hospitals in the Lisbon region varied at 22:00 on Tuesday, from more than nine hours at the Fernando Fonseca hospital (Amadora Sintra) to two hours at García de Orta in Almada.
According to the National Health Service Portal consulted by the Lusa agency, 84 patients with a yellow bracelet (urgent) were this Tuesday at 22:00 in the emergency department of the Fernando Fonseca Hospital (Amadora Sintra) with an average waiting time. time nine hours 42 minutes, with a recommended time of 60 minutes.
In this branch, three people with an orange bracelet (recommended time of 10 minutes) waited, the wait time was two hours and 55 minutes.
At Santa Maria Hospital the average waiting time was five hours and 16 minutes, with 37 people wearing the yellow bracelet at the time in the central emergency department and 72 people waiting in the general emergency department of the Beatriz Angelo Hospital in Loures. with a yellow bracelet, waiting time three hours 59 minutes.
At San Francisco Xavier, San Jose and Garcia de Orta hospitals in Almada, wait times are four hours and 10 minutes (six people), two hours and 51 minutes (seven) and two hours and 58 minutes (58), respectively. .
At the D. Estefania Pediatric Hospital, the wait time for emergency patients is one hour and 28 minutes, with 12 people waiting in the emergency department and four (with a wait time of 17 minutes) wearing an orange bracelet.
Fernando Fonseca Pediatric Emergency Department had a wait time of one hour and 26 minutes (01 people).
In the Porto region, at the São João Hospital, the average waiting time is one hour 57 minutes for very urgent patients, four people wearing an orange bracelet, and three hours 11 minutes for emergency patients, four people wearing an orange bracelet. bracelet.37 people with a yellow bracelet. In pediatric urgent care, the waiting time for emergency patients is one hour and 49 minutes (13 people).
At Santo António Hospital, the waiting time for emergency patients is four hours 55 minutes, with 28 people waiting, while at Pedro Hispano, in Matosinhos, the waiting time for emergency patients is five hours 48 minutes (15 people).
At the Eduardo Santos Silva Hospital, Vila Nova de Gaia, 47 people were waiting in the multipurpose emergency department with a yellow bracelet, with a waiting time of three hours and 11 minutes, and in the pediatric emergency department there were six emergency patients with a waiting time of one hour 36 minutes.
Manchester triage, which assesses a user’s clinical risk and assigns a priority level, has five levels: urgent (red wristband), very urgent (orange), urgent (yellow), less urgent (green) and non-urgent. ( blue).
In the case of a yellow bracelet, the first service should not take more than 60 minutes, and in the case of a green bracelet, it is recommended not to exceed 120 minutes (two hours).
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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