ER nurse reveals the ONLY person medics allow to skip t…

No one wants to wait around during an emergency, but one ER nurse has revealed there is a particular type of person that often gets preferential treatment.

Nurse and mom Caitlin Armstrong recently shared the interesting tidbit to her TikTok account, revealing there is a way to skip the line.

In the videothe expert medic said the one person she keeps an eye out for is farmers.

‘There are very few people in triage who get to skip the line,’ Caitlin began her video.

‘If you’re an old, seasoned triage nurse, we very rarely pull people to skip the line and come ahead,’ she continued.

But she then explained into the notable exception, which she says she will occasionally pull before they have even registered.

‘The farmers will get pulled every single time because they are standing there, talking to you – most likely drove themselves – and are currently having the biggest heart attack that you have ever seen in your entire life,’ she shared.

‘They are just standing there with a cowboy hat on, no big deal, but they have also never seen the doctor, or haven’t been in at least 37 years,’ the nurse continued.

Caitlin then declared:, ‘They will get pulled to the front of the line every time so this is just your PSA: if you’re in line, and a farmer’s behind you, they’re gonna go first, I’m sorry. That’s how the emergency room works.’

Viewers – both patients and medical professionals – were then quick to share their own experiences with her assessment.

‘If a farmer calls 911, as a medic, I drive a little faster cause they don’t call for no reason,’ one user agreed.

‘Especially if his wife didn’t make him come in,’ another chimed in.

‘I skipped line because I was bleeding out after my hysterectomy. Trust me when I say this — you don’t want to be the person skipping the line,’ assured someone else.

The triage system is used to prioritize patients based on the severity of their medical condition.

According to the National Library of Medicine, various criteria are taken into consideration when assessing patients in the ER, including the patient’s pulse, respiratory rate, capillary refill time, presence of bleeding, and the patient’s ability to follow commands.

Last year, a study looked at the areas with speedy emergency departments, with the fastest areas seeing patients in one hour and forty minutes – while in more delayed areas it was more than four hours.

The average nationwide time spent in the ED before getting discharged was two hours and 45 minutes.

Nearly half of US states exceeded this, with Maryland having the longest hospital wait times – 247 minutes, just over four hours.

Tied for second were Massachusetts and Rhode Island at 214 minutes.

Delaware (211 minutes), New York (202 minutes) and New Jersey (194 minutes) rounded out of the top five, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, analyzed by pre-settlement legal funding company High Rise Financial.

Spending more time in the emergency department increases the chances of complications like infections and the risk patients will leave before being treated.

The bottom five states, where patients can expect to be in and out of the ED in two hours or less, included North Dakota (107 minutes), Nebraska (114 minutes), South Dakota (115 minutes), Oklahoma and Iowa (117 minutes) and Hawaii (120 minutes).

Long ED wait times have been plaguing hospitals for years. A study conducted more than a decade ago found longer durations were associated with an increased risk of hospital admission or death within seven days.

Although the overall risk is low, risk of hospital admission increased by up to 95 percent, while risk of death increased by up to 79 percent among the sickest patients.