J Korean Soc Emerg Med.  1997 Dec;8(4):553-558.

A Clinical Analysis on the Patients of Orient-Medical Therapies in Emergency Department

• Kim OJ
• Hoon CS

Abstract

We have observed that many patients who were under the treatment of orient medicine at the emergency department of our hospital but no data are available describing the medical habits of these patients. We therefore surveyed these patients seeking care in our ED to characterize their use of orient-medical therapies.4 analysis on the 427 patients who visited our ED and were under the treatment of orient medicine from Jan. 1996 to Jun. 1996 was carried out The results were as follows 1) There was no difference in the sex ratio (m:f=1:0.93). 2) With respect to the age groups of in patients, feat numbers of elderly people(50-year and 60-year old age group, over 60%) visited to our ED. 3) In the leading causes for visit to orient-medical therapy, cardiovascular disease ranked at the top(40%), followed by injury, gastrointestinal disease, and respiratory disease in decreasing order of frequency.4) The total numbers of CVA patients admitted to Oriental medicine were 105 patients. 5) The duration of admitted patients to Oriental medicine was prolonged for elderly patients.6) In the distribution of severity(AVPU) of adimitted patients, the number of patients with alert was 12 and verbal response was 91 painful response was 2 and unresponse was 0.

MeSH Terms

Aged
Cardiovascular Diseases
Emergencies*
Emergency Service, Hospital*
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Humans
Medicine, East Asian Traditional
Middle Aged
Sex Ratio