A Study of the Pattern of Admissions to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Sri Lanka

Table 2

Cardiovascular, ischaemic, and circulatory diseases.

Diagnosis	Presentation	Total	Male: age	Female: age	Deaths
1. Acute coronary syndrome	Chest pain (95.5%)	n = 3,436 (7%)	n = 1,884 (54.8%)	n = 1,552 (45.2%)	13
	Dyspnoea/dizziness/giddiness (4.5%)	9.4 ± 4.3 days	62.5 ± 12.3 years	64 ± 12.4 years
1.1. ST-elevation myocardial infarction	Chest pain (96.7%)	n = 695 (20.3%)	n = 466	n = 229	11
	Dyspnoea (3.2%)		59.4 ± 12.6 years	61.9 ± 12.7 years
1.2. Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction	Chest pain (93.4%)	n = 874 (25.4%)	n = 427	n = 447	1
	Dyspnoea/dizziness/giddiness (3.6%)		64.3 ± 12.5 years	64.3 ± 12 years
1.3. Unstable angina	Chest pain (98.2%)	n = 1,864 (54.3%)	n = 991	n = 876	1
			64.2 ± 12.3 years	63.1 ± 11.9 years
2. Angina	Chest pain (98.6%)	n = 2,490 (5.05%)	n = 1364	n = 1126	0
			57.9 ± 11 years	60.2 ± 11.0 years
3. Heart failure	Chest pain (62.5%)	n = 496 (1%)	n = 235	n = 261	9
	SOB (32.1%)		67.2 ± 13.3 years	69.3 ± 13.3 years
	Others (5.4%)
4. Hypertension	Hypertension (26.5%)	n = 166 (0.3%)	n = 73	n = 93	0
	Dizziness/giddiness (30.1%)		59 ± 14.8 years	60 ± 16 years
	Chest pain (15.7%)
	Others (27.7%)
5. Cerebrovascular accidents	Unilateral weakness (74.3%)	n = 2967 (6%)	n = 1,705 (57.5%)	n = 1,262 (42.5%)	10
	Slurring of speech (10.8%)	8.8 ± 3.3/per day	63.8 ± 14.4 years	66.7 ± 14.2 years
	Mixed (10.6%)	65 ± 14.4 years
	Loss of consciousness (4.2%)
5.1. Ischaemic stroke		n = 2,073 (70%)	n = 1,191	n = 882	5
			67.5 ± 13.2 years	64.7 ± 13.4 years
5.2. Haemorrhagic stroke		n = 413 (14%)	n = 233	n = 180	4
			64 ± 17 years	67.7 ± 15.1 years
5.3. Transient ischaemic attack		n = 446 (15%)	n = 261	n = 185	0
			61 ± 14.7 years	67.7 ± 15.1 years
5.4. Subarachnoid haemorrhage		n = 35 (1%)	n = 20	n = 15	1
			50.5 ± 19.7 years	51 ± 19.7 years

^∗from overall admissions.