The average waiting times for urgent patients in hospitals in the Lisbon region, at 10 pm on Tuesday, December 26, varied between more than nine hours, in Fernando Fonseca (Amadora-Sintra), and 1:58 am, in Garcia in Orta, in Almada. .
According to data from the National Health Service portal, consulted by Lusa, 84 patients with a yellow (urgent) bracelet were in the public emergency service in Fernando Fonseca Hospital (Amadora-Sintra), with an average wait time of nine hours and 42 minutes, while the recommended time is 60 minutes.
In this unit, three people waited wearing an orange bracelet (recommended time 10 minutes) with a waiting period of 2 hours and 55 minutes.
In the Santa Maria HospitalThe average waiting time was five hours and 16 minutes, with 37 people wearing yellow bracelets in the Central Emergency Service at the time, while in the General Emergency Service in Beatrice Angelo HospitalIn the city of Llores, 72 people were waiting with a yellow bracelet, with a waiting time of 3 hours and 59 minutes.
we Hospitals of São Francisco Xavier, São José and García de OrtaIn Almada, the waiting time is 4 hours and 10 minutes (six people), 2 hours and 51 minutes (seven), and 1 hour and 58 minutes (58), respectively.
already exists Children's Hospital Dr. Estefania The waiting time is one hour and 28 minutes for urgent patients, with 12 people waiting in the emergency department, while four (with a waiting time of 17 minutes) were wearing an orange bracelet.
in Fernando Fonseca Pediatric EmergencyThe waiting time was 1 hour and 26 minutes (one person).
In the Porto area, in St. John's HospitalThe average waiting time is one hour and 57 minutes for extremely urgent patients, with four people wearing an orange bracelet, and three hours and 11 minutes for urgent patients, with 37 people wearing a yellow bracelet. In pediatric emergency, the waiting time for urgent patients is 1 hour and 49 minutes (13 people).
In the santo antonio hospital, The waiting time for urgent patients is four hours and 55 minutes, and 28 people wait while they are in the hospital Pedro HispanoIn Matosinhos, the waiting time for urgent patients is five hours and 48 minutes (15 people).
In the Eduardo Santos Silva HospitalIn Vila Nova de Gaia, 47 people were waiting in the multi-purpose emergency room with a yellow bracelet, with a waiting time of three hours and 11 minutes, while the pediatric emergency department had six urgent patients with a waiting time of one hour and 36 minutes.
Manchester triage, which allows the user's clinical risk to be assessed and priority level determined, includes five levels: emergency (red bracelet), very urgent (orange), urgent (yellow), least urgent (green) and non-urgent (blue).
In the case of a yellow bracelet, the first service should not take more than 60 minutes, and in the case of a green bracelet, the recommendation is that it should not take more than 120 minutes (two hours).
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