Epidemiological features of emergency calls around the spring festival holiday in past 5 years / 中国基层医药

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the epidemiologic al features of emergency calls around the spring festival holiday in past 5 years,so as to guide emergency medical services during holldays.Methods An investigation was made into emergency calls around the spring festival holiday in 2001～2005(1～7 of the first month of the lunar year) as well as one week before and after the holiday.Results The person-times to emergency during the spring festival holiday was correspondly stabilize in the recent 5 years,compared to the datas of the previous and subsequent 1 week,the person-times of emergency and the patients needed to rescue at first significantly increased,and the patients to pediatric emergency increased most significantly.The most part of the person-times to emergency were internal medicine.Conclusion It is essential to do a good job of health education and disease prevention,especially among high risk groups of people,and to reinforce the establishment of the emergency medical services system so as to effectively guarantee the the development of holiday economy.