Anatolian Journal of Emergency Medicine
Yazarlar: Hayrullah YÖNAK, Serkan Emre EROĞLU, Emin PALA, Mehmet Muzaffer İSLAM, Gökhan AKSEL, Ferhat Yakup SUÇEKEN
Konular:Tıp
Anahtar Kelimeler:Tent,Emergency station,Mass gathering medical care
Özet: Introduction: Medical professionals are employed frequently in mass meetings that are held for many reasons in our country. The aim of this study is to evaluate the admissions to the emergency health tent among the thousands gathered for the opening of a health facility. Method: Patients who applied to the emergency health tent in the opening of the health facility were taken to this retrospective study. All of the data that was recorded by the Emergency medicine personnel were processed and analyzed in SPSS v25 (Chicago, Illinois) statistical program. Results: In our study, 19 patients applied to the emergency medical tent. Of those, 3 were male, 16 were female and the mean age was 50,5±23,45. The most frequent admission reason was “feeling unwell” with 52.6%. While nine of the patients were evaluated in the health tent without treatment, ten of them were directed to emergency service. Patients with chest pain and fever complaints were transferred from the health tent to the emergency room for further evaluation (p = 0.001). Seven of nine patients (77.8%) who were discharged from the emergency tent after a short follow up time were female. Conclusion: Our article is valuable because we have not found another publication in the national or international literature that studies any form of mass gathering that has a similar purpose to the one in our study. Since we have not detected any urgent cases, it can be said that the biological stress conditions that occur during these gatherings are far more determinative in the need for emergency medical care. Despite considerable limitations, our article presents pioneering information for more extensive work. With increase in these efforts, emergency medical tents can be redesigned in all aspects or preventive measures can be diversified.