Table 1.
Distribution of death by autopsy during the study period.
| Total number of deaths during the study period |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average age (y) | Sex |
Accepted by |
Average stay in the ED (h) | Percentage | ||||
| M | F | EMAC team | Community- acquired pneumonia | |||||
| AMI | 139 | 73.1 | 87 | 52 | 106 | 33 | 1:56 | 39.7% |
| PE | 44 | 71 | 23 | 21 | 34 | 10 | 1:44 | 12.6% |
| Community-acquired pneumonia | 38 | 67.3 | 29 | 9 | 25 | 13 | 2:18 | 10.9% |
| Carcinomas | 26 | 66.5 | 18 | 8 | 19 | 7 | 2:44 | 7.4% |
| GI bleeding | 24 | 70.4 | 10 | 14 | 20 | 4 | 1:34 | 6.9% |
| Dissection/aneurysm | 16 | 68.5 | 14 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 1:15 | 4.6% |
| Sepsis | 12 | 61 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 4:42 | 3.4% |
| Brain haemorrhage | 12 | 72.5 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 2:37 | 3.4% |
| Ischaemic stroke | 10 | 76.1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3:12 | 2.9% |
| Mesenteric thrombosis | 7 | 76 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 2:02 | 2.0% |
| Perforation | 5 | 70.7 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1:06 | 1.4% |
| Diabetic coma | 5 | 68.5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4:23 | 1.4% |
| Peritonitis | 4 | 79.2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3:56 | 1.1% |
| Gastrointestinal bleeding | 3 | 57 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0:28 | 0.9% |
| Poisoning | 3 | 54 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1:00 | 0.9% |
| Frostbite | 1 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1:35 | 0.3% |
| Cardiac tamponade | 1 | 83.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0:40 | 0.3% |
| Total | 350 | 69.9 | 209 | 141 | 270 | 80 | 2:13 | |