Abstract
A statistical review was made of the 2914 emergency patients observed at the Maeda ENT Hospital between January 1, 1988 and December 31, 1990.1. The patients showed a wide age range, but 55.9% were children under ten years of age.2. 66.4% of the patients were seen on weekends and national holidays.3. 71.4% of the patients were seen in or near our city, but about 10% were seen in areas requiring more than 1 hour of travel by car.4. The most frequent emergency disease was acute otitis media (51.5%), followed by acute upper respiratory inflammation (13.2%), foreign body (12.0%), nasal bleeding (7.6%) and injury (5.6%).
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