• Alexander Becker, Gil Segal, Yuri Berlin, and Dan Hershko.
• Department of Surgery A, Emek Medical Center, Afula 18101, Israel. Electronic address: becker_al@clalit.org.il.
• Chin. J. Traumatol. 2019 Jun 1; 22 (3): 125-128.

PurposeTo examine the relationships between emergency department length of stay (EDLOS) with hospital length of stay (HLOS) and clinical outcome in hemodynamically stable trauma patients.MethodsProspective data collected for 2 years from consecutive trauma patients admitted to the trauma resuscitation bay. Only stable blunt trauma patients with appropriate trauma triage criteria requiring trauma team activation were included in the study. EDLOS was determined short if patient spent less than 2 h in the emergency department (ER) and long for more than 2 h.ResultsA total of 248 patients were enrolled in the study. The mean total EDLOS was 125 min (range 78-180). Injury severity score (ISS) were significantly higher in the long EDLOS group (17 ± 13 versus 11 ± 9, p < 0.001). However, when leveled according to ISS, there were no differences in mean in diagnostic workup, admission rate to intensive care unit (ICU) or HLOS between the short and long EDLOS groups.ConclusionEDLOS is not a significant parameter for HLOS in stable trauma patients.Copyright © 2019 Daping Hospital and the Research Institute of Surgery of the Third Military Medical University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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