The Abercrombie and Fitch Emergency Department

The Abercrombie and Fitch Emergency Department (ED) at The OSUWMC is a designated Level 1 Trauma Center, as well as a Comprehensive Stroke, Burn, and Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Center and Cardiac Center with more than 70,000 visits annually. The ED space includes over 100 beds: nine Level 1 Trauma-Critical Care Resuscitation Rooms, a 20 bed Clinical Decision Unit, a 15 bed Cancer ED, and an Arrival Zone for minor illness or injury treatment. The Department of Emergency Medicine (www.osuem.com) provides medical staff for this unit, which includes 59 staff physicians and 45 Emergency Medicine (EM) residents. The pharmacist-physician relationship is synergistic and collaborative. The medical team consists of EM staff physicians and residents, guest residents from services such as internal medicine, general surgery, and orthopedics, medical students, EM nurses and nursing students, social workers and their students, clinical case managers, respiratory therapists, psychiatrists, and pharmacists, pharmacy students and pharmacy residents. Team members are funded in both clinical and bench research, are actively involved in the community Emergency Medicine Services, and play a role in leadership at the medical center.