Table 4.
The cause of death within 1 day and 30 days of an EMS encounter, sorted by ICD-10 chapters
| Chapters of ICD-10 | Number of deaths | Number of deaths Day 1 (%) |
Number of deaths Days 2–30 (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | 4 (0.7) | 1 (0.5) | 3 (0.8) |
| II Neoplasms | 93 (16.6) | 12 (6.3) | 81 (21.9) |
| III Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism | 3 (0.5) | 2 (1.0) | 1 (0.3) |
| IV Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 5 (0.9) | 3 (1.6) | 2 (0.5) |
| V Mental and behavioural disorders | 17 (3.0) | 5 (2.6) | 12 (3.2) |
| VI Diseases of the nervous system | 59 (10.5) | 13 (6.8) | 46 (12.4) |
| IX Diseases of the circulatory system | 248 (44.2) | 110 (57.6) | 138 (37.3) |
| X Diseases of the respiratory system | 31 (5.5) | 3 (1.6) | 28 (7.6) |
| XI Diseases of the digestive system | 38 (6.8) | 9 (4.7) | 29 (7.8) |
| XIII Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 3 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (0.8) |
| XIV Diseases of the genitourinary system | 4 (0.7) | 1 (0.5) | 3 (0.8) |
| XVIII Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) |
| XX External causes of morbidity and mortality | 55 (9.8) | 31 (16.2) | 25 (6.5) |
| Total | 561 (100.0) | 191 (100.0) | 370 (100.0) |