Most Common Diagnoses in Patients Transported by Ambulance to Emergency Departments — United States, 2003
Posted by GruntDoc on 21st May 2006
From the CDC:
QuickStats: Most Common Diagnoses in Patients Transported by Ambulance to Emergency Departments, by Primary Diagnosis Group — United States, 2003During 2003, approximately 16 million ambulance transports were made to emergency departments (30 per minute);
37% of patients transported were admitted to hospitals.Ten primary diagnosis groups accounted for approximately one third of all transports.
And, what were those ten categories?
- Chest pain
- Contusion with intact skin
- Nonischemic heart disease
- Sprains and strains of the neck and back
- Convulsions
- Syncope and collapse
- Abdominal pain
- Pneumonia
- Drug dependence and non-dependent abuse of drugs
- Fractures, excluding lower limb
I wonder how many of those were inter-related: Cocaine abuse causing chest pain and convulsions, followed by syncope, awakening with a big bruise, finger fracture and a wicked neck strain, a non-Q wave MI and abdominal pain, with aspiration pneumonia caused by the convulsion.
Yeah, I saw that patient, recently. Everyone in the ED has, apparently.
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