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Collapse in an Accident and Emergency Department

Author(s) -

Andrew J McLaren,

John T. Lear,

R G Daniels

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689408700307

Subject(s) - medicine , accident and emergency , complaint , retrospective cohort study , mortality rate , emergency department , medical emergency , pediatrics , disease , emergency medicine , surgery , pathology , psychiatry , political science , law

Collapse is a common presenting complaint to accident and emergency (A & E) departments. This retrospective study of 4180 new attendances at a district general hospital A & E showed that this accounted for 2.9%. A wide disease spectrum was implicated. This patient group has a high admission rate (47.8%) and a high mortality rate (31.3%). The deaths occurred largely in the elderly and it is suggested that elderly patients should either be admitted for observation, or a careful screening carried out for underlying pathology. The diversity of disease precludes a standard management protocol.

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