Summer alcohol-related emergency department workload and occupancy in Australasia 2019-2022.

Drew B Richardson Daniel Michael Fatovich Diana Egerton-Warburton

Published in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2024)

The present study demonstrates that the COVID-19 pandemic did not affect summer alcohol-related ED presentations in Australasia but was associated with an unsustainable increase in ED crowding.

Keyphrases

emergency department
heat stress
drug induced