tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "The epidemiology of medical emergency contacts outside hospitals in Norway - a prospective population based study"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The epidemiology of medical emergency contacts outside hospitals in Norway - a prospective population based study | Zakariassen et al. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18 9 http content 18 1 9 SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF 8 emergency medicine ORIGINAL RESEARCH Open Access The epidemiology of medical emergency contacts outside hospitals in Norway - a prospective population based study Erik Zakariassen1 2 Robert Anders Burman1 Steinar Hunskaar1 3 Abstract Introduction There is a lack of epidemiological knowledge on medical emergencies outside hospitals in Norway. The aim of the present study was to obtain representative data on the epidemiology of medical emergencies classified as red responses in Norway. Method Three emergency medical dispatch centres EMCCs were chosen as catchment areas covering 816 000 inhabitants. During a three month period in 2007 the EMCCs gathered information on every situation that was triaged as a red response according to The Norwegian Index of Medical Emergencies Index . Records from ground ambulances air ambulances and the primary care doctors were subsequently collected. International Classification of Primary Care - 2 symptom codes ICPC-2 and The National Committee on Aeronautics NACA Score System were given retrospectively. Results Total incidence of red response situations was 5 105 during the three month period. 394 patients were involved in 138 accidents and 181 situations were without patients resulting in a total of 5 180 patients. The patients age ranged from 0 to 107 years with a median age of 57 and 55 were male. 90 of the red responses were medical problems with a large variation of symptoms the remainder being accidents. 70 of the patients were in a non-life-threatening situation. Within the accident group males accounted for 61 and 35 were aged between 10 and 29 years with a median age of 37 years. Few of the 39 chapters in the Index were used A10 Chest pain was the most common one 22 of all situations . ICPC-2 symptom codes showed that cardiovascular syncope coma respiratory and .