Emergency Department Discharge Pathway
Improve ED workflow and better coordinate care teams to improve outcomes for patients and systems
Philips cardiac ambulatory monitoring can help break the ED readmission cycle for appropriate patients1
ED patients that could benefit from cardiac ambulatory monitoring
Syncope
Atrial fibrillation
Palpitations
Dizziness or lightheadedness
Neurological symptoms
Other transient symptoms possibly due to an arrhythmia
Growing challenges facing the Emergency Department
Emergency departments across the country are challenged with maintaining quality care through staff shortages, overcrowding, longer wait times, and shortages of critical beds. To better manage ED patient workflow and potentially reduce inpatient stays, appropriately selected patients can be discharged home with outpatient arrhythmia monitoring using Mobile Cardiac Telemetry-MCOT. As a result, patients can be efficiently triaged to the appropriate care setting to increase the availability of hospital resources and improve the detection of arrhythmias.
About 1 in 7 patients are readmitted within 30 days
of discharge – symptomatic AF is the most
common cause.5
ED-discharged patients
had a 2.7x greater risk
of AF, stroke and death at 1 year – AF is associated with a 5x increased risk of ischemic stroke.7,8
Clinical Resources
References:
1. Wei M, Do D, Tang P, et al. Optimal disposition for atrial fibrillation patients presenting to the emergency departments. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;71(11):A509. doi:10.1016/S0735-1097(18)31050-7
“Emergency physicians are in a unique position to play a key role in enabling an outpatient plan for eligible patients presenting with AF. The ED serves as a key access point to reshape the care of patients with AF by offering early interventions that would ultimately help reduce avoidable hospitalizations and alleviate the tremendous burden that AF places on the U.S. healthcare system.”
EP Lab Digest
Philips cardiac ambulatory monitoring can help
break the ED readmission cycle for appropriate patients1