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Hospital Dos de Maig

Emergencies

About the Observatory

The Emergency Department of Dos de Maig Hospital attends to the urgent demand of moderate and low complexity of any specialty (except Pediatrics and Obstetrics) 24 hours a day and 365 days a year

To carry out this task, it is organized according to the level of urgency (triage), the complexity and the seriousness of the case. It solves the demand with a comprehensive vision coordinated with other services of the same hospital and with other hospitals, to try to efficiently achieve the best result in terms of health and patient satisfaction.

  • Update date: 15/06/2023

Units and benefits

The mission of the service is to attend to any demand for urgent care as long as it is of moderate and low complexity, since Dos de Maig Hospital does not have an intensive care unit (ICU). The Emergency Department has on-site consulting doctors for: internal medicine (24 hours a day), general surgery (from 8 a.m. to 20 p.m. Monday to Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 15 p.m. on Fridays, the rest of the time there is a surgeon available ) and traumatology (from 8 a.m. to 15 p.m. Monday to Friday). Has:

Diagnostic support:
  • Complete analytics 24 hours a day and blood bank management
  • Conventional radiology 24 hours a day
  • Computed axial tomography (CT) with a report from the radiologist 24 hours a day
  • Ultrasound (hours according to the calendar)
Specialized support:
  • Hospitalization at home
  • Cardiology
  • Digestive
  • Dermatologist
  • Endocrinology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Neurology
  • Pneumology
  • Rheumatology
  • General surgery
  • Orthopedic surgery and traumatology
  • Vascular surgery
  • Ophthalmology
  • Otorhinolaringology
Hospitalization Emergency Support Unit:
  • Emergency Short Stay Unit (UCEU)
Ambulatory assistance devices at discharge:
  • Comprehensive Complexity Support Team (ESIC)
  • Endocrinology Day Hospital
  • Respiratory Day Hospital
  • Internal Medicine Day Hospital
  • Social work
  • Hospitalization at Home
  • Consultation of traffic accidents
  • Functional Interdisciplinary Sociosanitary Unit (UFISS)

  • Update date: 15/06/2023

Diseases and procedures

  • Any urgent demand is evaluated by the service professionals, both from triage and in the different care areas.
    If it is considered that, due to its complexity or pathology, the patient must be referred to another hospital or center, it is transferred in the best conditions and as soon as possible.

  • Update date: 15/06/2023

Research

The following studies are in progress:

– Research study on syncope in emergency services.

– Happy patient study Happy patient  (use of antibiotics in respiratory and urinary tract infections).

– Vihgila Program (HIV detection in emergency services).

It is worth starting new lines of research in the Emergency Department.

  • Update date: 15/06/2023

Teaching

The service forms:

  • Family and community medicine residents
  • Medical students
  • Undergraduate and nursing degree students
  • Community nursing residents
  • Technicians in auxiliary nursing care

  • Update date: 15/06/2023

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