[The most common causes of admission and related variables in the resuscitation room of the emergency service].
OBJECTIVE
To identify the most common causes of admission to the resuscitation room of the emergency service and to determine which variables modify this frequency.


METHODS
An observational retrospective study was performed during the months of July-August, 2004 and January-February, 2005. A sample of 1346 patients obtained from the registration book of the resuscitation room was analyzed. Information on age and sex was obtained from the hospital's internal database. The variables analyzed were age, sex, shift, date, and patient destination.


RESULTS
The most frequent causes of admission were heart disease, respiratory disease and polytrauma. Although there was a higher percentage of males (59.5%), the percentages among the causes of admission changed according to the sex of the patient. There was a higher number of patients during the morning period (37.8%), on Mondays (17.7%), and in January (30.5%), with some variations according to cause and sex. The most common patient destination was the observation area of the emergency service.


CONCLUSIONS
The causes and frequency of admission were influenced by the variables studied.
Unidad de Cuidados Críticos y Urgencias, Hospital de Poniente, El Ejido, Almería, España. 665970537@amena.com
Rosalía
R
Peral-Rodríguez
Fernando
F
Estévez-González
Lourdes
L
García-Montoya
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012151:Resuscitation; D012189:Retrospective Studies