Table 1 Commonest presenting complaints
From: Emergency medicine in Paarl, South Africa: a cross-sectional descriptive study
Presenting complaint | % |
|---|---|
Trauma related | 36.0 |
Gastrointestinal tract | 21.9 |
Respiratory tract | 12.4 |
Nervous system | 8.3 |
Musculoskeletal | 7.3 |
Systemic/metabolic | 6.6 |
Cardiovascular | 5.1 |
Genitourinary tract | 4.3 |
Ear nose throat | 4.3 |
General weakness | 3.7 |
Skin | 3.6 |
Intoxicated | 2.0 |
Psychiatric | 1.5 |
Ophthalmic | 1.1 |