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Originally Posted by brisen
Having worked as a Paramedic, I would suggest that the increase in transports could be two fold - it could be facilities clearing patients who are able to be safely discharged ahead of the projected surge to allow the facilities extra surge capacity if required. The other factor is that not all patients transported by paramedics are taken to an ED, the fact that ED admissions were static does suggest that most were not going to ED nad in fact may be going the other way.
I would be leaning to an increase in discharge to allow for increased surge capacity in the facilities. As anyone working in the health sector will be aware, there is a surge capacity that exists routinely and is used to cope with a MCI event. I would be expecting that the current event will exceed the existing surge capacity due to the protracted nature of the event.
Brian
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That makes a lot of sense