Survival increases in weekend cases

• April 24, 2024

Those who have a accident car or motorcycle, receive a Shooting or suffer a traumatism, are more likely to survive if they go to hospital on the weekend, compared to workdays, this according to a study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine that publishes the journal Archvies of Surgery, published by the website of the Very Interesting magazine of Spain.

These conclusions are opposed to previous studies that mentioned a "weekend effect "Negative, according to which patients with heart attacks or heart attacks evolved worse if they were hospitalized at night or on Saturday and Sunday.

According to the experts, authors of the study, time is a negative factor in these cases, what patients need to recover from a serious injury is that the health system acts fast. In normal circumstances, hospitals are prepared to attend 24 hour emergency a day, they say.

The researchers attribute that the increase of the possibilities of surviving in weekend, is because they exist more resources available immediately, since normally Saturdays and Sundays there are no surgeries and you have to "compete with fewer patients for the time of the surgeons , the rooms operations , the blood banks and other hospital resources. " However, the results show that patients who enter at night or on weekends stay longer hospitalized than those who enter in the mornings in the morning. Work days , assures the portal muyinteresante.es.

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