Drive-Thru Clinic, Caring for Patients from the Car
Health Care February 1st, 2010
restaurant or eating place that provides the drive-thru may have many. But what about the drive-thru clinic that can treat patients only from the car?
Many people who choose to order food drive-thru for some reason do not have the time or just lazy out of the car. But the drive-thru clinic is being planned researchers are more intended to help treat patients more quickly and effectively.
Initial ideas drive-thru clinic that triggered by researchers from Stanford University was intended to address pandemic influenza, particularly cases of swine flu (H1N1) is now being spread. To handle these cases, the speed and accuracy of patient treatment is urgently needed.
For that, researchers try to test the effectiveness of the clinical scenario by creating a drive-thru clinic. A garage or room to place medical clinic built, paramedical staff, patients and all the medical equipment to treat patients had available. The whole scenario is described in The Annals of Emergency Medicine.
In this scenario, the patient was taken to a garage which has three stations to handle the patient. The first station serves as the registry. The second station serves as the checkpoint on the spot. The third station served as a patient who must receive more treatment and should be out of the car.
Emergency medical equipment was available in the garage. Sister will do screening on patients to determine his physical condition. If detected an unstable situation, the patient will be directed straight into the path of the drive-through clinic. Where patients can get medicines and treatment directly.
Meanwhile, if the patient is detected ill and needed medical treatment, they were immediately taken to the emergency. Results from this study shows, doctors who participate in clinical trials of this drive-thru were able to identify and treat patients accurately up to 95 percent.
The garage is used as a drive-thru clinic had already tested the level of carbon emissions and expressed monoksidanya safe, both for medical staff and patients. Another positive outcome of this study is the average patient (which does not require more) can be handled by the medical team in just 26 minutes.
As quoted from Healthbolt, Friday (28/1/2010), temperature and facilities designed in a drive-thru clinic that would be made in such a way that patients feel comfortable.
The existence of a drive-thru clinic is expected to help speed up the handling of patients in a pandemic situation or other emergency situations
