Full Moon Emergency Room Statistics

A 2011 study published by the national institute of health nih looked at more than 5 400 patients trying to find a connection between the lunar cycle and psychiatric emergency room visits.

Full moon emergency room statistics.

The expression there must be a full moon out tonight will likely remain in emergency medicine folklore. Bernard hospital in chicago has worked exclusively nights since he began practicing 12 years ago. J emerg med 1987 5 91 95 2. And a paper published in the nursing research journal also showed that there was no real relationship between moon phases hospital admissions and birth.

N engl j med 1978 298 1318 1319 3. Staff is expensive so you. There are a lot of people looking into this as if you know in advance that it will be busy you hire on extra staff. A 2011 study published by the national institute of health nih looked at more than 5 400 patients trying to find a connection between the lunar cycle and psychiatric emergency room visits.

Data revealed a small increase in the number of visits to psychiatric emergency rooms when a full moon was present. Eric moon do an emergency room physician at st. Data revealed a small increase in the number of visits to psychiatric emergency rooms when a full moon was present. There is always a lot of speculation as to why the emergency room is busier some days rather than others.

A study from the american journal of emergency medicine found that when analyzing admissions over a four year period there were no significant increases on nights where there was a full moon. Folklore tells us that the full moon correlates to more emergency room visits poorer mental health a change. However the belief that the ed is busier during the full moon cannot be substantiated. Emergency room admissions but see behavioral outbursts of psychologically challenged rural adults lycanthropy vampirism alcoholism sleep walking epilepsy.

Conception and fertility have also been linked to moon phases. The wall street journal reports that some of the biggest believers in the full moon s chaotic effects are doctors nurses and er staff. And then there are the entirely non pregnancy related behaviors like homicide rates suicide rates emergency room admissions and outbreaks of insanity. Evidence in the yes column.

The full moon has been linked to crime suicide mental illness disasters accidents birthrates. Supposedly all of these things increase on a full. Lunar cycles and emergency room visits.