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. 2013 May-Jun;79(3):312-6.
doi: 10.5935/1808-8694.20130056.

Profile of otorhinolaryngology emergency unit care in a high complexity public hospital

[Article in English, Portuguese]
José Santos Cruz de Andrade  1 , André Maranhão Souza de Albuquerque, Rafaella Caruso Matos, Valéria Romero Godofredo, Norma de Oliveira Penido
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Profile of otorhinolaryngology emergency unit care in a high complexity public hospital

[Article in English, Portuguese]
José Santos Cruz de Andrade et al. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2013 May-Jun.

Abstract

Urgent and emergency care are common happenings in ENT practice and most carry low morbidity and mortality. There are but few studies that address the epidemiology of these situations.

Objective: To evaluate the epidemiological characteristics of care in the emergency department of otorhinolaryngology at a high complexity hospital.

Method: Epidemiological, cross-sectional study, retrospective with data collection carried out from medical records from the emergency department of otorhinolaryngology of a high complexity hospital in São Paulo, for a period of 12 months.

Data collected: age, gender, clinical diagnosis and management. The cases were divided by subspecialty: otology, rhinology, pharyngolaryngeal-stomatology and head and neck surgery. We evaluated the level of urgency/emergency, etiology and monthly distribution of visits.

Results: 17,503 medical records were obtained; 1,863 were excluded. Of the 15,640 cases included, the average age was 36.3 years. 9,818 (62.77%) corresponded to cases considered as emergency/urgency. Among the urgency/emergency cases, 6,422 (65.41%) were diagnosed in the ear and among the 10 most prevalent diagnostics, 7 were in the subspecialty of otology.

Conclusion: Among the patients seen in the emergency department of otolaryngology evaluated in this study, 62.77% corresponded to cases of urgency/emergency, predominantly in the otology subspecialty.

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Monthly distribution of fve amongst the ten most prevalent diagnoses in the urgency/emergency care provided. EO: External otitis; AOM: Acute otitis media.
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