An epidemiological investigation on the cases of Shanghai pre-hospital care in 2007
- VernacularTitle:上海市2007年院前急救患者流行病学调查
- Author:
Rongfeng GUO
;
Zaiqian CHE
;
Jinglei LI
;
Xiaoguang LI
;
Weijun ZHOU
;
Huiqiu SHENG
;
Yanyan SONG
;
Weijun WU
;
Erzhen CHEN
;
Yiming LU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Pie-hospital care;
Epidemiology;
Managenment of emergency medicine;
Shanghai City
- From:
Chinese Journal of Emergency Medicine
2008;17(11):1127-1130
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To analyze the epidemiologieal characteristics of the pre-hospital care cases in Shanghai in the year 2007. Method Based the demographic records in the year 2007, the cases which from the database of Shanghai pre-hospital care center with full items were analyzed. Chi-square test and exact probabilities were used to compete the consfituent ratio; and the method of circular distribution was used to calculate the peak time, date and month. Results There were 86 815 patients with pre-hospital care well documented from the ur-ban districts of Shanghai. The ratio of male to female was 3.89: 1. The senile patients accounted for 84.95% of all the pre-hospital care ones. The major causes of disease in patients with pre-hospital care were trauma, eere-brovascular disease,cardiac diseases, coma, high fever, tumor emergency, acute abodomen emergency,OB/GYN emergency and upper G1 tract bleeding in turn. During the daytime, the occurrence of those emergency patients with pre-hospital care usually peaked at 2:15 o' clock with the high frequency in the period of 5:45 to 17:45 o' clock.The top nine diseases had their own peak time and high frequency period, respectively. Within a year, no peak date occurrence of patients with prehospital care, in tolal, was found. Howerer, the occurrence of patients with high fever, acute abdomen and upper GI bleeding had specific peak dates within a year, respectively. Conclusioes The pre-hospital care eases in the urban of Shanghai have own epidemiologieal characteristics. Perfect the construc-tion of pre-hospital emergency care system, improving the professional training, and thereby meeting the require-ments are factors in the fundamental guarantee of improving the rescue full success rate of severe patients.
