State of Emergency Medicine in Switzerland: a national profile of emergency departments in 2006

Table 2 Medical staff and organization

Characteristics		Number of visits per year
Characteristics	All	1 – 5,000	5,001 – 10,000	10,001 – 20,000	>20,000	*P value*
Initial patient care handled by:
Residents only [%]	77	68	66	97	79
Attending physicians only [%]	6	16	3	0	5	0.009
Both [%]	18	16	31	3	16
Required post-graduate training for residents before ED rotation:
None [%]	58	62	70	57	33
≥ 6 months [%]	35	38	18	39	56	0.051
≥ 24 months [%]	7	0	12	4	11
Duration of ED rotation
≤ 3 months [%]	51	22	65	69	22
4–6 months [%]	31	28	18	24	72	< 0.001
> 6 months [%]	18	50	18	7	6
Physician(s) certified in advanced life support:
ACLS [%]	89	91	85	93	88	0.83
Available <10 min [%]	82	87	72	89	78	0.59
ATLS [%]	82	76	71	93	89	0.14
Available <10 min [%]	71	64	52	89	83	0.61
PALS [%]	56	40	52	52	89	0.011
Available <10 min [%]	40	29	38	32	80	0.53
All 3 certifications [%]	46	23	38	52	82	0.002

Abbreviations: ACLS: advanced cardiac life support, ATLS: advanced trauma life support, PALS: pediatric advanced life support.

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