[Descriptive study of 21,804 ENT emergencies in a third level hospital].

Abstract

We present a descriptive study about 21.804 emergency patients (ENT Department) treated in our hospital between 1994 and 2000. We have seen about 260 patients every month being the otologic pathology (35.63%) the most frequent one, followed by the nasosinusal (26.65%). Individually, the epistaxis where the 13% of all cases attended. The nasal traumas (contusions and fractures) where about a 10% of the total and in a third place, the external otitis (6.84%). We estimate in more than a 60% of the patients with a simple pathology (not urgent) and in a 3% of the patients without ENT pathology when they came to emergency. We believe, like other consulted authors, that there is a high patients index coming to the Hospital, for other reasons, without a justifiable ENT emergency. That contributes to different levels, with other specialities, to the collapse of the emergencies services.

• Authors: V Pino Rivero, E Rejas Ugena, T Keituqwa Yáñez, M Alcaraz Fuentes, M Marcos García, G Trinidad Ruíz, A Blasco Huelva
• Journal: Anales otorrinolaringologicos ibero-americanos (An Otorrinolaringol Ibero Am) Vol. 30 Issue 3 Pg. 237-45 ( 2003) ISSN: 0303-8874 [Print] Spain
• Vernacular Title: Estudio descriptivo de 21.804 urgencias ORL en un hospital de tercer nivel.
• PMID: 12918288 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Ear Diseases (epidemiology, rehabilitation)
• Emergency Medical Services
• Hospitals, Urban
• Humans
• Laryngeal Diseases (epidemiology, rehabilitation)
• Pharyngeal Diseases (epidemiology, rehabilitation)
• Tracheal Diseases (epidemiology, rehabilitation)