The Holiday Shift Expectation

Emergency physicians work holidays. It’s just part of the job description. I’ll be in the Emergency Department tomorrow, myself.

Which holidays are typically the lightest – according to this retrospective review from a single pediatric Emergency Department?

  • Probably no different: Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, New Year’s Day
  • Probably lighter: Martin Luther King Day, Labor Day
  • Almost definitely lighter: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day

Hopefully we’ll all have good shifts together tomorrow!

“Predicting Flow in the Pediatric Emergency Department: Are Holidays Lighter?”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27253652

2 thoughts on “The Holiday Shift Expectation”

  1. Wow ! I thought my yesterday shift (Thanksgiving) was going to be light. I was terribly wrong. Case of bronchiolitus needing the ICU, acute lung injury and pulm hemorrhage with pulmonary edema from heroin with crash airway among others. My co-worker had even worse insanity. Patients needed our team , glad I was there.

    1. I guess Thanksgiving is light – “on average”. Somewhere out there, thumb twiddlers probably wished for half your excitement ….

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