These floors get everything from cardiac gi respiratory cancer substance abuse psych.
General medicine floor vs wards.
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There are 2 general medicine floor teams.
Emergency department visits for nonurgent conditions.
And patients that are post op from knee replacements will go to the ortho floor.
Covers a wide range of types of surgery and procedures on patients.
Mentor rounds are held daily.
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General medicine where i work is essentially the same as med surg except it s mostly patients who are being medically managed rather than surgically.
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The major difference between the two is the patient groups they care for.
Each team consists of 1 pgy 2 resident 2 pgy 1 residents and 1 2 medical students.
An acute medical unit amu also often called acute admissions unit or medical assessment unit is a short stay department in some british australian and new zealand hospitals that may be linked to the emergency department but functions as a separate department the amu acts as a gateway between a patient s general practitioner the emergency department and the wards of the hospital.
What is an intensive care unit.
Surgical wards are generally for care of patients undergoing elective planned surgical procedures and emergency surgical procedures whereas medical is the care.
4 blocks 4 weeks block description.
Geriatric based versus general wards for older acute medical patients.
Support services include services provided by departments such as portering catering housekeeping security health safety switch laundry and the management of facilities such as parking baby tagging access control cctv etc.
Our specialty floors like general surgery will still take medical patients pneumonia electrolytes dehydration etc but if for instance we have someone with cholelithiasis come from the er they ll go to the general surgery floor first.
A report of the task force of the world federation of societies of intensive and critical care medicine.