Does Your ED Have a Room #13?

[docB]

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Of the 4 urban hospitals I work at only one has a Room #13. We skip from 12 to 14 at the rest. Is it just a Vegas superstition thing?

 

[Wackie]

Of the 4 urban hospitals I work at only one has a Room #13. We skip from 12 to 14 at the rest. Is it just a Vegas superstition thing?

No bed 13 where I live.

 

[Hawkeye Kid]

we have 13s in the EDs at both of our hospitals. the floors and units, on the other hand, skip them (4212, 4214, etc).

 

[GeneralVeers]

We had a bed 13 at MLK.....not surprising I guess.

At my new place in CC, we do not have a bed 13. I guess it makes our small ED look bigger (i.e. higher room numbers).

 

[dchristismi]

We have three bed 13s. One in the main ED, one in flexcare, and one in the peds ED.

 

[spyderdoc]

We have a bed 13. We usually put dead people in there while they wait to go to the morgue. Never really thought of the irony until now....

We use it also to see live ones when it gets real crowded and we have an "extra" nurse to staff it (not too common).

 

[waterski232002]

The phone number to the cook county medical examiners office in chicago is (312) 666-0500. Pretty sweet if you ask me....

 

[BlackSails]

Bellevue Hospital has no floor 13.

Rather, it has no floor 13 by elevator. By stairs, there is a floor 13.

 

[sdn1977]

Bellevue Hospital has no floor 13.

Rather, it has no floor 13 by elevator. By stairs, there is a floor 13.

That sounds like the "Twilight Zone"...

 

[southerndoc]

We have two room 13's. One on each side (north and south). Both are gyn rooms.

 

[kungfufishing]

we do. Hadnt even thought about it.

 

[ERMudPhud]

Of the 5 hospitals I've worked at in the last year I don't think any had a room 13

 

[DropkickMurphy]

The phone number to the Cook County Medical Examiners Office in Chicago is (312) 666-0500.

One hospital I worked at had a room 666. It was actually the case management office. One of the case managers had a sign on her desk that said (something to the effect of) "Welcome to Hell, please check your hope at the door". What makes the room assignment even funnier is the head of case management was the wife of a minister.

 

[BlackSails]

That sounds like the "Twilight Zone"...

I found out the reason eventually. Floor 13 is machinery, and they dont want patients going there.

 

[docB]

I found out the reason eventually. Floor 13 is machinery, and they dont want patients going there.

So they put all the critical, hospital sustaining equipment like the ventilation, generators, etc. on the 13th floor. Smart.

 

[GeneralVeers]

I'm amazed that people can still be superstitious and avoid numbers like 13, and 666. Can't we get out of the dark ages?

 

[docB]

I'm amazed that people can still be superstitious and avoid numbers like 13, and 666. Can't we get out of the dark ages?

Do you let people say the "Q" word in your ED?

 

[leviathan]

Interesting question...our beds start numbering at 200...not sure if we even have a 213 though.

 

[BadVB750]

Yeah we have a 13.

 

[Jeff698]

Do you let people say the "Q" word in your ED?

Come on, now. I'm not superstitious or anything, but DAMN.

Let's just not provoke the wrath of the ill tempered fates, shall we?

The last time I said the Q word at work, I was soon drowning in a huge pile of depressed, end-stage fibromyalgia patients who were 'weak and dizzy'. My soul still hasn't recovered.

Take care,
Jeff

 

[RockfordWF]

Of the 4 urban hospitals I work at only one has a Room #13. We skip from 12 to 14 at the rest. Is it just a Vegas superstition thing?

Why wouldn't there be a room 13? It wouldn't make any sense to skip a number.

I sewed up a lac in room 13 a few hours ago.

 

[umza]

I remember the isolation room, neg pressure, was room 666....
I don't like it when my patients are admitted to that bed!


Ohhh it is so very dark, back here in the dark ages!!

 

[igcgnerd]

We have a 13 room fast track, a 13 bed ICU, and when I looked at the nurse's schedule 10 min ago... We have 13 nurses working tonight!😱

 

[deleted77919]

We have a room 13 but as with all of our "rooms" (except isolation rooms) it fits 2 pts so there is a 13A and 13B.

Edit: I put rooms in quotes because most are really just divided by curtains.

 

[GeneralVeers]

We have a room 13 but as with all of our "rooms" (except isolation rooms) it fits 2 pts so there is a 13A and 13B.

Edit: I put rooms in quotes because most are really just divided by curtains.

From the Twilight Zone: "Room for one more!"

 

[TysonCook]

We got a 13, which is down a hallway, isolated and a great place to put those stable, talkative, patients, that amazingly code while they are lounging in their quiet "off-to-the-side" room.

 

[Ceez]

The phone number to the cook county medical examiners office in chicago is (312) 666-0500. Pretty sweet if you ask me....

yeah, that also struck me as odd when i was filling out a death pack for a patient last month....felt like i was calling the devil to take this poor man home

🙁

 

[DeLaughterDO]

no 13 in the ED, no 13 in the ICU, no 13 in the CICU.

no "666" on the wards, either.

 

[leviathan]

Beds start at #213 around these parts. It's a regular bed along with the others in Med/Surg.

 

[sophiejane]

We've got room 13's...even in the Bible Belt...

 

[docB]

So this highly scientific poll seems to demonstrate that about a quarter of the EDs out there (extrapolated by a convenience sample of 70+ EDs) don't have a Room 13. Interesting. So who are the superstitious ones? Architects, nurse managers, facilities managers, administrators, EPs? EPs don't get that much input. Anyway, I'm sure we'll see this study published in AEM or Annals soon, maybe even NEJM. But not JAMA. JAMA's crap.

 

[DropkickMurphy]

So this highly scientific poll seems to demonstrate that about a quarter of the EDs out there (extrapolated by a convenience sample of 70+ EDs) don't have a Room 13. Interesting. So who are the superstitious ones? Architects, nurse managers, facilities managers, administrators, EPs? EPs don't get that much input. Anyway, I'm sure we'll see this study published in AEM or Annals soon, maybe even NEJM. But not JAMA. JAMA's crap.

Actually this would be great fodder for the Canadian Medical Association Journal's annual joke issue.

 

[leviathan]

Actually this would be great fodder for the Canadian Medical Association Journal's annual joke issue.

How about the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine's ad posting for the Waiting Room Fellowship? Courtesy of one of the attendings of the ED where I work.

http://www.rchemerg.ca/waiting/index.html