Emergency Medicine at Emory Johns Creek
The Emory Johns Creek Hospital Emergency Department is open 24 hour hours a day, 7 days a week and treats nearly 32,000 patients annually, almost a third of them pediatrics. The Emergency Department is staffed by board-certified emergency physicians.
Our Emergency Department features advanced technology allowing our team to operate at a high level of performance and efficiency. This technology gives us the ability to receive EKGs from the field and also to diagnose STEMIs (a deadly type of heart attack) and activate a cardiac catheterization team before incoming patients arrive. We can also page Code STEMI and Code Strokes before patients arrive to get those caregivers in place and ready to receive the incoming patient. Because bedside EKGs are available in 13 ED rooms, we are also able to reduce the time from patient arrival to EKG. In an emergency situation, these minute saving technologies become life-saving. The average wait time to see a physician in the ED is 27 minutes and our average arrival to departure time is 168 minutes.
Our efficiency doesn’t mean a compromise in quality, either. Our electronic medical records system and scanning barcodes decrease errors and improve patient safety, as do our smart pumps, which help prevent medication errors.
Because we use the latest technology, and our equipment is state-of-the-art, we can diagnose a full range of conditions including:
- Cardiac catheterization
- Dual Energy CT
- MRI
- Ultrasound
- Stereotactic
- Interventional Radiology
- House-wide telemetry
- Expertly staffed OR suites