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- Title
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT WITH ACUTE EXACERBATION OF COPD AND CERTAIN METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS.
- Authors
USUL, Eren; SEYHAN, Avni Uygar
- Abstract
AIM: This study, we aimed to determine the relationship between the number of patients admitted to the emergency department with acute exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and certain meteorological parameters, including temperature, humidity, and air pressure. MATERIAL AND METHOD: This study is a retrospective study. It was performed to determine the effect of temperature, air pressure and humidity factors in evaluating the frequency of attacks in patients admitted to the emergency department with COPD acute exacerbation. The subject group included patients who were admitted to the secondary public hospital emergency Department between 01.01.2017 and 31.12.2019. RESULTS: According to the research findings, as the average temperature, maximum and minimum temperature decreased, the number of hospital admissions due to COPD attack increased. Seasonal change was found to be significant on the number of COPD admissions. Also, the COPD admissions made at the weekend were found to be significantly higher than during the week. A significant correlation was found between mean temperature and COPD attack frequency. There was no statistically significant relationship between humidity and pressure and the presentation of COPD attacks. CONCLUSION: We determined the effect of climatic factors on the frequency of COPD attacks and that this effect was related with temperature. We found that as the temperature decreased, the admission to the emergency department increased with COPD exacerbation.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY medical services; DISEASE exacerbation; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases; HUMIDITY; AIR pressure
- Publication
Medical Journal of Ankara Training & Research Hospital, 2021, Vol 54, Issue 1, p112
- ISSN
1304-6187
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20492/aeahtd.884831