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. 2012 Feb 19;2012:905976. doi: 10.1155/2012/905976

Table 2.

Breakdown of EMS responses by chief complaint.

CC Freq. Percent Cum.
Abdominal Pain (Medical) 284 1.95 1.95
Allergic Reaction 105 0.72 2.67
Altered Mental Status 329 2.26 4.93
Animal Bites/Stings 138 0.95 5.88
Assault 779 5.35 11.23
Back-Pain (Medical) 68 0.47 11.70
Bleeding (Medical) 128 0.88 12.58
Burn 83 0.57 13.15
Cardiac 156 1.07 14.22
Cardiac Arrest 4 0.03 14.25
Catheter Complications 5 0.03 14.28
Chest Pain (ACS) 272 1.87 16.15
Chest Pain (Non-Cardiac) 306 2.10 18.25
Choking 296 2.03 20.28
Diabetic Emergency 1,108 7.61 27.90
Dizziness 249 1.71 29.61
Electrocution/Lightning 19 0.13 29.74
Environmental Cold/Heat 140 0.96 30.70
Eye Problems 51 0.35 31.05
Hazardous Material Exposure 57 0.39 31.44
Headache 174 1.20 32.63
Mental health/Psychiatric Illness 669 4.60 37.23
Near Drowning 3 0.02 37.25
OB-GYN Problems 37 0.25 37.51
Other… 952 6.54 44.04
Pain 739 5.08 49.12
Poisoning/Overdose/Ingestion 416 2.86 51.98
Pregnancy/Childbirth 22 0.15 52.13
Respiratory Arrest 2 0.01 52.14
Respiratory Distress 883 6.07 58.21
Seizures/Convulsions 737 5.06 63.27
Sick Person 1,114 7.65 70.92
Stroke/CVA/TIA 54 0.37 71.29
Syncope/Near Syncope 960 6.59 77.89
Trauma-Abdominal 33 0.23 78.12
Trauma-Altered Mental Status 24 0.16 78.28
Trauma-Breathing Problems 5 0.03 78.31
Trauma-Chest 75 0.52 78.83
Trauma-Multisystem 29 0.20 79.03
Trauma-Penetrating 83 0.57 79.60
Trauma-Other 2,494 17.13 96.73
Unconscious 12 0.08 96.81
Unresponsive 21 0.14 96.96
Weakness 443 3.04 100.00

Total 14,558 100.00