title: [Descriptive study of 21,804 ENT emergencies in a third level hospital].
abstract: We present a descriptive study about 21.804 emergency patients (ENT Department) treated in our hospital between 1994 and 2000. We have seen about 260 patients every month being the otologic pathology (35.63%) the most frequent one, followed by the nasosinusal (26.65%). Individually, the epistaxis where the 13% of all cases attended. The nasal traumas (contusions and fractures) where about a 10% of the total and in a third place, the external otitis (6.84%). We estimate in more than a 60% of the patients with a simple pathology (not urgent) and in a 3% of the patients without ENT pathology when they came to emergency. We believe, like other consulted authors, that there is a high patients index coming to the Hospital, for other reasons, without a justifiable ENT emergency. That contributes to different levels, with other specialities, to the collapse of the emergencies services.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Infanta Cristina, Badajoz.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pino Rivero
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rejas Ugena
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Keituqwa Yáñez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alcaraz Fuentes
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marcos García
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Trinidad Ruíz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blasco Huelva
mesh_terms: D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006786:Hospitals, Urban; D006801:Humans; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D010608:Pharyngeal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D014133:Tracheal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation