70 years of age. Conclusions The results show that emergency medicine based on 816 000 Norwegians mainly consists of medical problems, where the majority of the patients have a non-life-threatening situation. More focus on the emergency system outside hospitals, including triage and dispatch, and how to best deal with "everyday" emergency problems is needed to secure knowledge based decisions for the future organization of the emergency system."/>
ICPC symptoms | ICPC-code (n) | N | % |
Rate per 1000/year |
National estimate/year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cardiovascular | 1 389 | 28 | 6.8 | 31 100 | |
Chest/heart pain | A11 (808) K01 (513) | ||||
Other cardiovascular symptoms | K29 (68) | ||||
Loss of consciousness | 945 | 19 | 4.6 | 21 200 | |
Syncope/coma | A06/07 (945) | ||||
Respiratory | 472 | 10 | 2.3 | 10 600 | |
Dyspnoea/breathing problems | R02/04 (430) | ||||
Other respiratory symptoms | R29 (42) | ||||
Neurological | 592 | 11 | 2.9 | 13 300 | |
Convulsion | N07 (324) | ||||
Other neurological symptoms | N29 (268) | ||||
Digestive | 195 | 4 | 1.0 | 4 400 | |
Abdominal pain/cramps | D01 (113) | ||||
Other digestive symptoms | D29 (82) | ||||
Psychiatric | 296 | 6 | 1.5 | 6 600 | |
Acute alcohol abuse | P16 (113) | ||||
Other psychiatric symptoms | P29 (182) | ||||
Injury/trauma | 531 | 11 | 2.6 | 11 900 | |
Laceration/cut, skin | S18 (101) | ||||
Other skin symptoms other | S29 (34) | ||||
Other musculoskeletal symptoms | L29 (396) | ||||
Other | 465 | 10 | 2.3 | 10 400 | |
Endocrine/metabolic symptoms | T29 (11) | ||||
Urinary/male genital symptoms | U29 (7) Y29 (5) | ||||
Pregnancy/female genital symptoms | W29 (106) X29 (1) | ||||
Assault/harmful event/problem | Z25 (12) | ||||
General symptoms | A29 (317) | ||||
Eye symptoms | F29 (6) | ||||
Not classified | 39 | 1 | 0.2 | ||
Subtotal | 4 924 | 100 | 24.2 | 110 000 | |
Excluded patients | 256 | 1.3 | |||
Total | 5 180 | 25.5 | 116 000 |