The Teramo Local Health Authority has also launched projects to contain overcrowding in emergency rooms. “First of all,” explained the councilor True – the regional resolution was implemented in all four hospitals which provides for a series of measures aimed at resolving critical issues: among the various measures, the permanence of the doctor and nurse beyond service hours”. On 16 April, Obs, a short-term specialist observation, was activated, which involves the hospitalization of the patient under observation no longer in the emergency room but in the specialist operating unit. The General Surgery, Medicine, Thoracic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Gynecology and Paediatrics units are involved in this first experimental phase. The medical staff was also increased, 5 new units, in the four emergency rooms.
Furthermore, in June the ASL will launch a second measure: Emergency Medicine will be established in the rooms adjacent to the Mazzini emergency room. The Emergency Medicine department, open 24 hours a day, with 5 beds, will be responsible for the management of acute, unstable or potentially evolving patients who require continuous care and assistance, with dedicated staff. For this reason, hospitalizations can also be short, in any case within 72 hours, waiting for stabilization of the acute pathology and then being referred for hospitalization in a medical or surgical environment, or for possible discharge in case of clinical improvement. Finally, the Teramo Local Health Authority is also starting a pilot project which involves the management of the white and some green codes in the Uccp of Teramo and Villa Rosa with the decisive involvement of general practitioners, for the start of which it is necessary to fulfill the latest bureaucratic steps.
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