Acute Assessment Unit

Acute Assessment Units or Acute Admissions Unit often known as AAU is basically a unit to receive the patients before taking them to emergency unit. In acute assessment unit they can examine and monitor the cases,

of patient and if it is necessary to go in emergency ward or unit then they send them to that department and that is why this department is often called Emergency Receiving Unit (ECR).

The acute assessment unit is a patient's general practitioner this means a medical practitioner which provides general medicines and primary care. It also provides acute health education to both genders and for all age peoples to get-to-know their problems and their solutions. This department of acute assessment have a time limit mostly four hours to treat and to cure the patients after that if it is required to go further treatment, they are send to emergency rooms.

The majority of the patients who come to this acute assessment unit are stayed for the period of 24 hours or less depending on their requirement. The AAU consists of several beds and partitions. A typical AAU can see 450 -500 patients in a day.

The staff of acute assessment unit is includes consultant physicians which look after patients for a twenty four hour basis. The Clinical Nurse of this department must be look after and offer the best duty he or she can to provide with the facilities for the treatment of patients.

The main goals of this department are to cure the patients before they leave to higher units like emergency ward or any other. Reduce the average length of patients by treating them rapidly to make them healthy. To make it available the well-organized management of obtainable beds. To enhance the information of acute medicines.

The most common conditions of the patients in an AAU include asthma, diabetics, chronic diseases and sepsis.

 
 
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