According to Nova Scotia’s health authority, the deaths represent less than 1 per cent of the total number of patients who attended ERs in the province last year
rose 10 per cent over the past year, partly because patients were arriving at hospitals with illnesses more complex and more serious than in previous years.
“You hear about these incredibly tragic cases … and they often receive a lot of publicity, but the reality is the problem is even greater than that,” said Kirk Magee, the chief of emergency departments in the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s central zone, which includes Halifax. In its annual report on emergency departments, which was published in December, the Nova Scotia Health Authority said the average amount of time patients in triage spent waiting to see health care providers was 2.07 hours across the province.
When patients arrive at ERs, they are assigned a level of acuity based on the Canadian Triage Acuity Scale. The highest level is for patients whose lives are threatened, such as those who are unresponsive, and the lowest level is for patients with non-urgent symptoms, such as mild abdominal pain. In 2017, 12 per cent of all ER cases were at the second-most-acute level. In 2022, 18 per cent were.
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