Full Moon Emergency Room

Evidence in the yes column.

Full moon emergency room.

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. The expression there must be a full moon out tonight will likely remain in emergency medicine folklore. Eric moon do an emergency room physician at st. And a paper published in the nursing research journal also showed that there was no real relationship between moon phases hospital admissions and birth.

A comparison was made of the number of accessions to the university of melbourne animal emergency centre in the period february 2003 to january 2006 on full moon and non full moon days adjusted. N engl j med 1978 298 1318 1319 3. However the belief that the ed is busier during the full moon cannot be substantiated. 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.

Bernard hospital in chicago has worked exclusively nights since he began practicing 12 years ago. J emerg med 1987 5 91 95 2. Lunar cycles and emergency room visits. Data revealed a small increase in the number of visits to psychiatric emergency rooms when a full moon was present.