Abstract
We reviewed the patients who were seen in the emergency clinics of our department during 1985. The results obtained in this study were as follows:
1. About 70% of the patients were children.
2. About 60% of the patients were seen in weekends and national holidays, and about 55% of the patients were seen during 6:00 p.m.-0:00 a.m.
3. The most frequent emergency disease was otitis media acuta (46.3%), followed by foreign body (16.6%) and nasal bleeding (8.0%).
4. About 95% of the patients were the subjects who did not need to be hospitalized.
5. About 70% of the patients brought by ambulance were the subjects who did not need to be hospitalized.
