Table 2.
The most common clinical diagnoses of emergency cases presented to King Abdul Aziz International Airport Health Care Center (KAIA-HC) during Hajj 1440 H are distributed by body system affected.
| Disease group | Diagnosis | No. of patients |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Freq | % | ||
| Cardiovascular Diseases | Hypertension | 59 | 19.9% |
| Hypotension | 23 | 7.8% | |
| Myocardial Infarction | 16 | 5.4% | |
| Cerebrovascular Accident | 10 | 3.4% | |
| Supraventricular tachycardia | 2 | 0.7% | |
| Heart Failure | 1 | 0.3% | |
| Respiratory Diseases | Bronchial Asthma | 53 | 17.9% |
| Pulmonary Embolism | 4 | 1.4% | |
| Chest Infections (pulmonary TB, Pneumonia) | 13 | 4.4% | |
| Respiratory acidosis | 1 | 0.3% | |
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | 2 | 0.7% | |
| Diabetes-linked Complications | Hypoglycemia | 10 | 3.4% |
| Hyperglycemia | 11 | 3.7% | |
| DKA, Hypokalemia, Hyperkalemia | 7 | 2.4% | |
| Renal Diseases | Chronic Renal Failure (Dialysis) | 4 | 1.4% |
| Renal Colic | 3 | 1.0% | |
| Urinary Retention | 2 | 0.7% | |
| Gastrointestinal | Gastroenteritis, Lower GI bleeding, Bowel Ischemia | 22 | 7.4% |
| Surgical | Cut Wounds | 13 | 4.4% |
| Bone Fractures & Dislocation | 11 | 3.7% | |
| Head Trauma | 4 | 1.4% | |
| CNS | Epilepsy | 6 | 2.0% |
| Others | Psychosis, Leukemia, Epistaxis, Heat exhaustion, Drug allergy, Dehydration, drug over dosage, spontaneous vaginal delivery | 19 | 6.4% |