Epidemiology of spontaneous nasal, ear and throat bleedings

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Epidemiology of spontaneous nasal, ear and throat bleedings Via Vestnik otorinolaringologii Vestn Otorinolaringol. 2021;86(4):31-35. doi: 10.17116/otorino20218604131. ABSTRACT Bleeding is a life-threatening condition, requiring an urgent care. The first line of treatment this kind of patients is ambulance doctors (emergency medical team). Spontaneous bleeding (SB), in this case, don't have a traumatic agent (including surgical trauma). STUDY OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate spontaneous bleeding epidemiological profile of Moscow city emergency service. METHODS: Study included statistical reports of Moscow city emergency services medical teams (EMT) were servicing adults. We analyzed total number of calls and number of EMT calls to pa-tients with SB during the period between 2015 and 2019. The excluding criteria was EMT re-calls to patents with SB. RESULTS: In a study, it was found that over five-year period of observation, EMT made 15 709 862 calls, included 215 840 calls (1.37%) to patien ts with SB. It was found that the most frequency sources of SB were: the gastrointestinal tract (33.18%), the nasal cavity (28.14%) and the vagina with the uterus (23.91%). There is the proportion of patients suffering of SB from ENT organs is 28.52% in structure of Moscow city Emergency Medical Service. There are the proportion of epistaxis 98.65%, ear bleeding - 0.89%, throat bleeding - 0.46% in structure of SB from ENT organs. We analyzed, that spontaneous epistaxis most frequent between October and April. This period characterized with 70.6% EMT calls from the total EMT calls to patients with SE. PMID:34499444 | DOI:10.17116/otorino20218604131 View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.