Journal of Metabolic Syndrome

Uma Amadi Kalu

Publications

• Research Article
  Pattern of Mortality in Medical Emergency Room: Experience at Abakaliki Nigeria
  Author(s): Chukwuemeka Okorie Eze and Uma Amadi KaluChukwuemeka Okorie Eze and Uma Amadi Kalu
  
  Background: An Emergency Department (ED) is a medical treatment facility dedicated to emergency medicine with an expectedly higher mortality rate. There is no available data on the pattern of mortality in the medical emergency room of the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (FETHA), a tertiary health facility in Abakaliki South-eastern Nigeria. Hence, this study was undertaken to determine the pattern of mortality of cases seen at the Medical Emergency unit of FETHA and compare it with that elsewhere in the country with the view of using the data generated as a baseline for planning purposes and for future studies. Method: This is a retrospective, descriptive and hospital-based study of the demographics and mortality pattern of patients seen at the medical emergency unit of the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (FETHA) over an 18 months period from January 2014 to June 2015. The ana.. Read More»
  

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