Death in the Emergency Department: A Retrospective Analysis of Mortality in a Swiss University Hospital

Table 2

Triage.

Aetiology (n = ; % of total)	Triage				Specialty		First seen in
	1	2	3	4	Medicine	Surgery	Neurology	Resus	Acute care
Trauma (49; 18.1%)	48	1	0	0	6	43	0	47	2
Gastrointestinal (8; 3.0%)	6	2	0	0	6	2	0	4	4
Neurological (15; 5.5%)	12	2	1	0	6	2	7	9	6
Cardiovascular (151; 55.7%)	147	3	0	1	146	5	0	132	19
Pulmonary (21; 7.7%)	19	2	0	0	20	1	0	14	7
Infection (8; 3.0%)	7	0	1	0	6	1	1	4	4
Cancer (7; 2.6%)	2	1	3	1	5	2	0	3	4
Psychiatric (6; 2.2%)	6	0	0	0	2	4	0	5	1
Other (6; 2.2%)	6	0	0	0	4	2	0	6	0
Total (271; 100%)	253	11	5	2	201	62	8	224	47