It’s no secret that Emergency Departments across the country are full. ED clinicians are treating patients seeking care for a wide variety of issues, and as a result, wait times have become an increasingly important factor for patients to decide which Emergency Department to visit. Overcrowding has resulted in excessively long wait times for some.
Hospital Corporation of America’s East Florida Division has responded by reporting their wait times through an RSS feed on their website, on billboards and via an iPhone app.
Announcing your wait time is great as long as it is a short one. That means that effective ED managers are looking for ways to decrease that wait time. Some are utilizing new techniques for pain management that work faster than traditional local anesthesia. Gebauer’s Pain Ease is one of those methods.
Pain Ease instantly controls pain associated with needle procedures and minor surgical procedures such as incision and drainage of small abscesses, lancing boils, foreign body removal, suturing and suture removal, IV starts, blood draws, and injections including pre-lidocaine injections. In some cases it can be used effectively instead of a lidocaine injection.
To find out more about this topical anesthetic go to the Gebauer’s Pain Ease website
You can see the RSS feed on the HCC website.
Filed under: ER, Pain Management
