Five Years Aspects in the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Kansai Medical University Hospital
1984 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages 764-771
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1984 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages 764-771
The dept. of critical care medicine at Kansai Medical University was established in March 1979. The emergency patients numbering 1963 were admitted to this service during the past five years. This report is the analytical observation of our cases.
The classification of the patients is as follows; internal medicine; 913 (46.5%), opthalmology; 387 (19.7%), general surgery; 582 (29.6%), gynecology; 36, otorhinolaryngology; 32, neuropsychiatry; 13 (0.7%).
The mortality rate is 17.6 %,89 patients died during the first 24 hours and 95 patients between 2 to 5 days after admission, indicating that about one half of the patients died within 5 days.
