Full Moon Emergency Room Statistics

If you believe old wives tales then the full moon sure has a big effect on your body.

Full moon emergency room statistics. The expression there must be a full moon out tonight will likely remain in emergency medicine folklore. Lunar cycles and emergency room visits. Conception and fertility have also been linked to moon phases. The full moon has been linked to crime suicide mental illness disasters accidents birthrates.

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. Staff is expensive so you. There is always a lot of speculation as to why the emergency room is busier some days rather than others. J emerg med 1987 5 91 95 2.

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. Emergency room admissions but see behavioral outbursts of psychologically challenged rural adults lycanthropy vampirism alcoholism sleep walking epilepsy. For as long as i ve worked in the emergency department whenever there s a full moon invariably someone will make a comment about how it s going to be a rough night he says. Evidence in the yes column.

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. And then there are the entirely non pregnancy related behaviors like homicide rates suicide rates emergency room admissions and outbreaks of insanity. Giving birth is just one human behavior said to be affected by the full moon. Data revealed a small increase in the number of visits to psychiatric emergency rooms when a full moon was present.

N engl j med 1978 298 1318 1319 3. Supposedly all of these things increase on a full. And a paper published in the nursing research journal also showed that there was no real relationship between moon phases hospital admissions and birth. Bernard hospital in chicago has worked exclusively nights since he began practicing 12 years ago.

Folklore tells us that the full moon correlates to more emergency room visits poorer mental health a change. Eric moon do an emergency room physician at st. 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.