CriticalUnusual wait · emergencyopen since 12 Oct 2026, 11:15 am
Emergency has 15 waiting, mean 64 min against a usual 52 min for this hour
What to do
No action of its own. It clears when what causes it is fixed; see the chain below.
How it connects: 8 upstream, 1 downstream
Caused by
- CriticalAdmitted patients are stuck in Emergency: 3 admitted patients are lying in Emergency beds waiting for W2.
- CriticalA ward is full while beds sit idle elsewhere: W2 is full: 4 waiting for it (3 boarding elsewhere, 1 just triaged).
- CriticalA bed stays occupied: Bed W2-07 in W2 is held by a discharge, 185 min old, waiting on the CBC report from lab, discharge medication (pharmacy).
- CriticalA bed stays occupied: Bed W2-11 in W2 is held by a discharge, 170 min old, waiting on the chest X-ray report from lab, discharge summary (records).
- CriticalA discharge is stuck: Lakshmi Devi's discharge has waited 185 min in bed W2-07.
- CriticalA discharge is stuck: Mohammed Irfan's discharge has waited 170 min in bed W2-11.
- CriticalA report is late: CBC for Lakshmi Devi is 105 min late, 9th in the central lab queue, and holds a discharge and bed W2-07.
- CriticalA report is late: X-ray chest for Mohammed Irfan is 75 min late, 4th in the radiology queue, and holds a discharge and bed W2-11.
Which is why
- HighA complaint has already come in: A complaint about waiting, severity 4.
The records behind it (11)
| waiting now | 15 | ||||||||||||
| mean wait min | 64 | ||||||||||||
| longest wait min | 122 | ||||||||||||
| doctors now | 3 | ||||||||||||
| projected wait for the last in queue min | 75 | ||||||||||||
| baseline p90 min | 52 | ||||||||||||
| baseline source | baseline for weekday 0 hour 11 | ||||||||||||
| longest waiting |
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| own urgency | 5 | ||||||||||||
| own impact | 15 | ||||||||||||
| downstream issue count | 1 |
How it was ranked
Urgency 5 of 5, impact 17 (people and beds it touches, downstream included), priority 85 (urgency times impact). Key wait_anomaly:emergency.