Patients often present to the emergency department (ED) as "found down," with limited history to suggest a primary traumatic or medical etiology.The study objective was to describe the characteristics of "found down" adult patients presenting to the ED as trauma, specifically the incidence of acute medical diagnoses and major trauma.Using an institutional trauma registry, we reviewed trauma activations with the cause of injury "found down" between January 2008 and December 2012. We excluded patients with cardiac arrest, transfers from other hospitals, and patients with a more than likely (>50
作者:Bianca Grecu, Jacobs;Samuel D, Turnipseed;Anna N, Nguyen;Edgardo S, Salcedo;Daniel K, Nishijima
来源:The Journal of emergency medicine 2015 年 49卷 6期