“World Emergency Medicine Day: Honoring the Vital Role of Health Professionals in Saving Lives and Fighting Challenges such as Saturation of Services and Time-Dependent Diseases.”

2023-05-26 08:08:00

World Emergency Medicine Day is commemorated on May 27: emergency professionals invite to raise awareness regarding the challenges of this practice, for example, avoiding saturation of Emergency Services can improve the patient’s life prognosis.

This year the commemoration has as motto “Your safety, our priority” and its objective is to recognize and honor the work of health professionals due to its vital importance in treating time-dependent diseases.

Today the main focus of this practice is the safety for colleagues They need to be able to work in a safe environment, for the right number of hours, and with the right number of patients in order to spend the right amount of time and energy on them.

Challenges of emergency medicine in Mexico

Among the challenges and difficulties that professionals in these practices face are making quick and accurate decisions, managing stress, pressure and difficult conditions.

According to Dr. Daniel Sánchez Arreola, member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Society of Emergency Medicine (SMME), it is necessary to raise awareness regarding the vital role that professionals play in saving lives.

Saturation of services harms the patient

In recent years, research has shown that The saturation of hospital emergency services harms patients and can lead to loss of life. Example of this is the study published in 2022 for him Emergency Medicine Journal which states that patients who waited in the emergency room for more than 6 to 8 hours following arrival have an 8% higher risk of dying.

Cerebrovascular diseases, the main challenge

In Mexico, emergency medicine plays a crucial role in the care of the main causes of death in the country, such as heart disease or cerebrovascular disease.

Also known as “time-dependent” diseases because their prognosis is complicated by delayed diagnosis, that is, their morbidity and mortality is directly related to the delay in starting treatment.

In the case of a CVD, it is estimated that every minute that blood flow to the brain is interrupted, 2 million neurons die, hence the importance of providing immediate medical attention to increase the chances of saving a life and improve your chances of a CVD. successful recovery.

The efficient and immediate response capacity to evaluate and make decisions regarding saving the lives of patients is what deserves this medical sector to be recognized and supported as vital components of the health system.

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