Fewer unnecessary emergency visits with new method – Swedish Dagbladet

Fewer unnecessary emergency visits with new method – Swedish Dagbladet

Since last summer, a so-called bedömningsbil in ambulance care in Gothenburg. During the spring, also the County Council of Västerbotten tested the concept, which will both increase the availability of ambulances and save patients’ time.

And there is great interest from other counties, according to Per Lindwall’s ambulance nurse at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and working with Assessment car.

– It will probably soon be popping up all over the place, especially in the metropolitan areas, he says.

The car is equipped as an ambulance, except that it does not have a stretcher, and staffed by a single specialist nurse. It is sent out instead of ambulance alarms that are not considered to be life threatening.

– Very many patients we can help on the spot. Will an ambulance, there is an expectation that you will be taken to the emergency room, and then it can be difficult to convince the patient that it is not needed, says Per Lindwall.

The idea is to relieve both emergency rooms and ambulances – by assessing the car takes the less serious cases are more ambulances available for other things.

In Västerbotten assessment used car for three months in the spring, and by summer will start to use it again. There, the availability of ambulances outside the urban area increased with the car to go in less serious incidents in central Umeå, according to Robert Ylipää who is operations manager for emergency care.

But the biggest win he believes is the improvement of the patients.

– Their time is too valuable. If you drive them to the emergency room without the need to consume their time unnecessarily.