A statistical observation was made in a total of 1, 520 cases consulted at the emergency outpatient service of the department of otorhinolaryngology during the one year period from April 1, 1982 to March 31, 1983. Patients' ages covered a wide range, but the incidence of children was especially high. Therefore, as to diagnosis, acute otitis media and nasal bleeding were observed with high incidences. No seasonrelated changes were observed. However, most of the patients were brought to us on holidays or on the previous day of holidays. The number of patients who came to us on such days was higher than the annual mean number of patients per day. Two hundred and fifty-four (16.7%) patients were brought to us in an ambulance, the commonest diagnosis in them being nasal bleeding and acute otitis media. As to the residence of patients, most of them lived near our hospital. Out of these, 2.2% patients were hospitalized. In this study characteristics of diseases of these patients were analyzed and results are reported.
From the results obtained, the following were revealed.
1) Diseases of the pediatric otorhinolaryngological field were pervailing,
2) Observed symptoms were mild in nature in most of the patients, and
3) Most of the patients had emergent illness which required no hospitalization.
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