Patient Demographics in Acute Care Surgery at the Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai

Table 2

Diagnostics, procedure, medication, and outcome of the most common diagnoses.

		Trauma	Chol*	Panc*	App*	STI*	UEF*	LEF*
		N = 109	N = 27	N = 27	N = 17	N = 19	N = 23	N = 18
Diagnostics	X-ray	84	3	6	5	17	23	16
	CT	9	2	10	4	0	0	1
	Ultrasound	2	9	9	4	0	0	0
	ECG	4	3	2	1	0	0	3
	Blood	2	17	22	13	0	0	1
	Urine	0	7	9	3	0	0	0
	None	9	2	3	1	0	0	0
	Other	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Unknown	11	7	2	3	2	0	1
Procedure	No procedure	43	7	9	8	14	4	5
	Laceration repair	21	0	0	0	0	2	2
	Debridement	26	0	0	0	1	2	5
	IV line	1	2	5	2	0	0	0
	Fixation bandage	23	0	0	0	2	15	9
	Abdom. paracenthesis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Catheterisation	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Central IV line	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	Intubation	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
	Blood transfusion	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Close reduction	4	0	0	0	0	3	0
	Other operation	3	1	1	1	0	4	1
	Other procedure	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Procedure unknown	10	17	11	6	3	0	0
Medication	No medication	29	1	2	2	9	6	2
	Pain medication	50	6	9	1	8	12	11
	Antimicrobial drugs	20	22	20	11	2	1	3
	Cardiovascular drugs	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	Pulmonary drugs	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Neurological drugs	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Hormones	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Gastric mucose agents	0	2	14	1	0	0	0
	TCM	4	1	2	0	0	4	2
	Ext. applied agent	4	0	2	0	1	0	0
	Other medication	9	12	6	5	0	1	0
	Medication unknown	10	2	1	4	0	4	4
Outcome	Observation ward	3	7	16	6	0	0	1
	ED ward 1 or 2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	Transfer other facility	6	0	0	0	0	1	0
	Admitted to Inp. Dep.	14	1	3	1	0	8	6
	Discharged without followup	11	1	6	1	2	1	0
	Discharged with followup	57	14	0	7	12	11	8
	Death	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Outcome unknown	18	3	2	2	5	2	3

*Chol: cholecystitis Panc: pancreatitis; App: appendicitis; STI: soft-tissue injury; LEF: lower extremity fracture; UEF: upper extremity fracture.