Maximum emergency department overcrowding is correlated with occurrence of unexpected cardiac arrest

Abstract Background Emergency department overcrowding negatively impacts critically ill patients and could lead to the occurrence of cardiac arrest. However, the association between emergency department crowding and the occurrence of in-hospital cardiac arrest has not been thoroughly investigated. T...

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Main Authors: June-sung Kim, Hyun-Jin Bae, Chang Hwan Sohn, Sung-Eun Cho, Jeongeun Hwang, Won Young Kim, Namkug Kim, Dong-Woo Seo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Critical Care
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-020-03019-w