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December 31st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda THURSDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) —
Overcrowding in emergency rooms appears to keep children with broken arms
and legs from getting pain relief in a timely manner, according to a new
study.
Researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine said
their findings are significant since these injuries, known as long bone
fractures, are common among children and very painful.
“Pain associated with long bone fractures can be pretty severe,” study
author Dr. Marion Sills said in a university news release. “But crowded
emergency departments are impacting the delivery of care on many levels,
including the delivery of pain medication.”
In conducting the study, published in the December issue of the journal
Academic Emergency Medicine, researchers examined 1,229 children
treated in an ER over the course of one year. They found the children were
4 percent to 47 percent less likely to receive treatment in a timely
fashion when the ER was very crowded (at the 90th percentile) than when it
was less crowded (at the 10th percentile). The researchers also found the
children were 3 percent to 17 percent less likely to receive effective
care in these crowded conditions.
“The relationship between emergency department crowding and pain
treatment is not unexpected,” noted Sills. “When the emergency department
gets busier, staff may be less responsive to the needs of individual
patients and, as a result, patients have a higher likelihood of
non-treatment and delays in treatment.”
The authors said delays happen in some cases when only doctors are
permitted to provide certain pain medications to patients.
“The expensive way to mitigate crowding is to hire more staff. Another
way is to leverage the staff you have,” Sills said. “Institutions can use
techniques like protocols for pain management with standing orders for
nurses, and computer- or phone-based alerts to call attention to
under-treated pain.”
Crowding is a serious issue, said Sills. “It is caused by a variety of
things, from patients who too readily use emergency departments to federal
policies that exacerbate the problem,” she noted. “We as a nation need to
get serious about this. Crowding needs to be a policy priority at every
level.”
More information
The U.S. National Institutes of Health provides more information on pain relievers.
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