A superlotação do serviço de emergência hospitalar

Abstract

The hospital emergency service should be engaged to comply with all the serious health problem of the person, which can make them have life- threating, however, the population look for the hospital emergency service trying to find the primary care, causing overpopulation and consequent deficiency in the real emergency cases. Having these observations going on, a reflexive bibliographic study on this subject was done, trying to discover all the reasons and consequences of the overpopulation of hospital emergency service. The research had as conclusion that the treatment in a general way is not being possible to supply the basic necessity health of people, and the overpopulation of the hospital emergency service is a global phenomenon, revealing the operational limit saturation, physical and assistential, having as a consequence the developing loss of the involved activities. This form, it is necessary to deepen the knowledge about this subject to collaborate in the final decision of the involved people and change the current frame, giving auxiliary in the search of solution based in evidences.