Patients Refusing Prehospital Transport Are Increasingly Likely to Be Geriatric

Table 2

Breakdown of EMS responses by chief complaint.

CC	Freq.	Percent	Cum.
Abdominal Pain (Medical)	284	1.95	1.95
Allergic Reaction	105	0.72	2.67
Altered Mental Status	329	2.26	4.93
Animal Bites/Stings	138	0.95	5.88
Assault	779	5.35	11.23
Back-Pain (Medical)	68	0.47	11.70
Bleeding (Medical)	128	0.88	12.58
Burn	83	0.57	13.15
Cardiac	156	1.07	14.22
Cardiac Arrest	4	0.03	14.25
Catheter Complications	5	0.03	14.28
Chest Pain (ACS)	272	1.87	16.15
Chest Pain (Non-Cardiac)	306	2.10	18.25
Choking	296	2.03	20.28
Diabetic Emergency	1,108	7.61	27.90
Dizziness	249	1.71	29.61
Electrocution/Lightning	19	0.13	29.74
Environmental Cold/Heat	140	0.96	30.70
Eye Problems	51	0.35	31.05
Hazardous Material Exposure	57	0.39	31.44
Headache	174	1.20	32.63
Mental health/Psychiatric Illness	669	4.60	37.23
Near Drowning	3	0.02	37.25
OB-GYN Problems	37	0.25	37.51
Other…	952	6.54	44.04
Pain	739	5.08	49.12
Poisoning/Overdose/Ingestion	416	2.86	51.98
Pregnancy/Childbirth	22	0.15	52.13
Respiratory Arrest	2	0.01	52.14
Respiratory Distress	883	6.07	58.21
Seizures/Convulsions	737	5.06	63.27
Sick Person	1,114	7.65	70.92
Stroke/CVA/TIA	54	0.37	71.29
Syncope/Near Syncope	960	6.59	77.89
Trauma-Abdominal	33	0.23	78.12
Trauma-Altered Mental Status	24	0.16	78.28
Trauma-Breathing Problems	5	0.03	78.31
Trauma-Chest	75	0.52	78.83
Trauma-Multisystem	29	0.20	79.03
Trauma-Penetrating	83	0.57	79.60
Trauma-Other	2,494	17.13	96.73
Unconscious	12	0.08	96.81
Unresponsive	21	0.14	96.96
Weakness	443	3.04	100.00
Total	14,558	100.00