The new crown epidemic affects the normal life of society. The School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong found that the number of emergency room visits in the first eight months of 2020 decreased by 27.4% compared with the same period in 2019, and the overall mortality rate rose from 2% to 2.9%, which was announced in the accident and emergency department. The number of deaths has increased rapidly.
According to the research team, the deceased are mainly elderly people with respiratory diseases. It is estimated that the public believes that “it is not a sudden illness or the initial stage of a sudden illness. You can wait first.” The University of Hong Kong urges the elderly and chronically ill patients to seek medical attention as soon as they develop symptoms. Avoid getting worse.
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Death rate rose to 2.9%
The epidemic hit Hong Kong early last year, and society has entered wartime alert.
The Hong Kong University School of Medicine team completed a retrospective study and found that from January to August 2020, the number of patients in the Accident and Emergency Department of 18 public hospitals was 1.04 million, a decrease of 27.4% from the 1.43 million in the same period in 2019, and the overall mortality rate dropped from 2. % Rose to 2.9%.
"Patients who end up stubbornly go to see the emergency first."
Team member Wei Jiacong, clinical assistant professor of the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, told "Hong Kong 01" that the overall mortality rate has increased statistically, and the key factor is the increase in the number of deaths announced in the accident and emergency department.
He said that at the beginning of the epidemic, the society was shut down and public hospitals still provided emergency services. Although outpatient services may be reduced, medicines are still available.
The study excluded patients with new coronary pneumonia. Wei Jiacong pointed out that the deceased were mainly elderly people with respiratory infections such as syncytial virus and influenza virus, rather than traditional cognitive emergency diseases such as heart disease and stroke. If you have a sudden illness, you will go to the accident and emergency department to see it. On the contrary, they may feel that it is not an urgent emergency or the initial stage of the emergency. You can observe the next one." "Injection is to prevent you from entering the intensive care unit and death, but it can be well tolerated. It can easily fall, collide with relatives, and dizziness due to illness." It requires a long time to recover and seriously affects life.
Wei Jiacong mentioned that in the early stages of the epidemic, the number of visits to accident and emergency departments in Italy, the United States, and London had plummeted, "the hardest hit areas", reflecting that "the Hong Kong epidemic is not serious, and the global population is even more low-risk, but the public is affected by the epidemic. The impact is huge." At present, the number of patients in the Accident and Emergency Department has rebounded, and the internal medicine wards have also exploded.
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