Etude epidémiologique et clinique des urgences cardiovasculaires observées dans le service de cardiologie du CHU du POINT G.

Abstract

Authors report results of a prospective study in cardiovascular emergencies in the service of cardiology B at the Hospital of Point G and spreaded on one year. Their prevalence was 24,8 per cent and the man was often more touched (53,7per cent). The average age in the sample was 57,42 ans. Patients in their majority were urban (64 per cent) and had a mean level of life (57,7per cent). The transfer to the hospital was assured in the majority of cases (93,1 per cent) by common vehicles and the average delay of admission after the apparition of first signes was more than trie days for about 2/3 sick persons (61,7 per cent). The high blood hypertension (52 per cent) and the tobacco for used the dominant factors of risk. The principal pictures of emergency were the grave heart insuffiency, the cerebral vascular accident and the occure pulmonary oedema with respective frequencies at 50, 9 per cent and 12,5 per cent. The mortality in the serries was of 23, 4 per cent and the grave heart insuffiency (53, 8 per cent) represented the most lethal affection.