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Two EMS (Emergency Medical System) belonging to the Free University of Brussels present the results concerning primary interventions. Calls come from the "Service 900" and from general practitioners. Trauma emergencies were inexistent in 1969. They now follow the cardiac emergencies in 1982. EMS are public services. Their collaboration with hospitals should be developed.
Acute appendicitis. Acute appendicitis is often suspected but in 70% of the cases the complaints to an other diagnosis. Aggressive therapy is therefore not indicated. A 12 to 24 h observation allows to avoid surgery and complications which are not exceptional.
Populations concerned with mobile emergency care systems have the same age distribution in Leuven and in Brussels. Interventions for trauma are more frequent in Leuven and cardiac emergencies more frequent in Brussels, but these digfferences decrease when only critical patients are taken into consideration. The origin of calls is quite different in Brussels and in Leuven. The mobile emergency care system is underused in Brussels. The distribution of emergencies is influenced by the information and the formation of firemen, physicians and public.
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