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Rev Esp Med Quir 2013; 18 (3)
Descriptive Analysis of Emergencies at the otorhynolaryngology service of the Regional Hospital General Ignacio Zaragoza, ISSSTE
Badillo RCA, Cárdenas PR, Ortiz RA
Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 212-217
PDF size: 393.58 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Background: In Mexico, statistics reveal that one of two persons
will require to be attended at an Emergency service due to some
acute disease or to illnesses derived from violent conditions.
According to figures from National Institute of Statistics and
Geography (INEGI), in Mexico about 260 million of medical consultations
were given in the Health National System, from which
26 million were given in the public services of emergencies and
more than a million and a half were given in private institutions.
According to this, 26% of national population requires annually
to be attended in the emergency service.
Objective: To describe the diseases most frequently treated at
the Otolaryngology Service as emergencies, to expose the main
causes for the increased demand for care.
Material and method: A retrospective, descriptive and observational
study in which files of patients attended was done from
January 1
st 2009 to December 31
st 2012 at the Otolaryngology
Service of the Regional Hospital General Ignacio Zaragoza of
ISSSTE. The following variables and parameters were analyzed:
age, sex, motive of consultation, frequency of definitive diagnosis,
relation discharges-admissions and estimation of actual emergencies
vs non-urgent disease.
Results: Nasal contusions (26%), acute otitis media (18.7%) and
previous epistaxis (11%) were the most frequent clinical entities,
representing the nasal and otological pathology more than 60%
of the assisted emergencies.
Conclusions: This is the first study of ISSSTE that describes the
most common diagnoses of otorhynolaryngologic emergency and
specifies its percentages of presentation, severity and frequency.
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