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How many people die in an average hospital in one day?

I am going to be volunteering on Saturday nights in the ER at a fairly large hospital. For any ER doctors/nurses or hospital administrators, on *average*, how many people would you say die in a normal ER at one hospital in a single day? How about in the entire hospital (including failed operations and just really sick people)? I guess I just want to know what to expect - are there really several people dying every day (like on TV), or is it more like a handful of people every week?

Public Comments

1. I worked at a large hospital in Texas and we rarely had people dying daily. Most of the ones that died were older people with terminal diseases. There were many weekends that there were no deaths in the ER.


2. This certainly depends on the country, the state/city, and the area as more affluant areas factually have lower death rates in local ER's. It is not uncommon to find that no people at all die in an ER in any given timescale, unless terminally ill or mortally wounded. I hope this helps.