Epidemiological analysis on critical care patients in the emergency department of a comprehensive hospital
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2012.26.003
- VernacularTitle:综合医院急诊危重患者流行病学分析
- Author:
Si-Miao PENG
1
;
Le-Zhi LI
Author Information
1. 中南大学
- Keywords:
Emergency department;
Critical care patients;
Epidemiology;
Comprehensive hospital
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2012;18(26):3110-3113
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the epidemiological features of critical patients in our emergency rescue area.Methods The ages,genders,time distribution of entering and turning out,disease scores and mortality rates of 2987 critical care patients rescued in emergency department of our hospital in 2011 were retrospectively analyzed.Results Circulatory,neurological diseases and respiratory diseases were the top three critical diseases in the emergency department.More male cases were received than female cases.Senior citizens aged from 60 to 79 were the largest group needing rescue.The diseases contributed to the top three mortality rates were sudden death out of hospital,hematological diseases and respiratory diseases. Peak time of the rescuing were December and April of the year and 16:00 to 20:00 of the day.Conclusions Resuing critical care patients is the emphasis of the emergency department.Promptly solving fatal problems and sending patients to relevant units as soon as possible is the necessary.Given the main targets are elderly patients with cardiac or cerebrovascular diseases as well as respiratory diseases,emergency staff and resources should be arranged and assigned properly according to the distribution features of the critical patients.Rescue green channel of several fatal diseases could be built to establish cooperative teams and improve the success rate of rescuing.Health education should also be strengthened to promote the emergency treatment knowledge for the high risk population.
