When the condition is urgent (Eng.urgent - "urgent") a person needs emergency help, since in this case he is threatened by a rapid imminent death. This concept is used in all spheres of medicine: surgery, cardiology, psychiatry, gynecology, etc. This article will describe the most common urgent conditions.
The ingestion of a large dose of chemicalsubstance requires immediate medical attention. The majority of victims with acute poisoning develops respiratory failure, which leads to death. In the US and Europe, about 250 out of 100,000 people are hospitalized with this diagnosis each year. As a comparison, the number of people affected by myocardial infarction can be cited. With this disease, 70-80 out of 100,000 people get to the hospital.
Age affected by acute poisoningvaries from 13 to 35 years. This urgent condition in 80% of cases occurs accidentally, 18% of incidents are suicidal and only 2% - occupational injuries.
Most often poisoning as a suicidewomen choose. Most men fall into hospitals with drug or alcohol intoxication. Mortality from poisoning in the hospital does not exceed 3%. Many more people die from intoxication, without having had time to seek qualified help.
This state is a consequence of overheatingliving body. High air temperature does not allow the body to maintain normal thermoregulation, which leads to severe consequences up to asystole, especially in children and people with cardiovascular diseases.
There are the following types of heat stroke:
In this urgent state, the patientthere is dizziness, nausea, redness of the skin, weakness, sleep disturbance, rapid breathing. A severe form of heat stroke is characterized by loss of consciousness, convulsions and hallucinations.
It can be said with certainty that syncopalThe state occurred in the life of half of the adult population of the planet at least once. The first episode most often occurs in people aged 10 to 30 years. The main reason for syncope is the inconsistency between the amount of blood supplied to the brain and its metabolic needs.
In medicine, the following syncopal urgent states are distinguished:
This is a recurrent, urgentthe condition causes secondary hyperthermia, cerebral edema, disturbance of liquorodynamics, cardiac activity and respiration. Ineffective treatment leads to death in the course of a couple of hours.
The cause of seizures are intracranial tumors, eclampsia and craniocerebral trauma. Immediate help is provided by the following solutions:
Repeated conversations and attempts to settle scores withlife are also included in the list of urgent states. Thoughts about death are present in almost all people with mental disabilities. Suicide is particularly easy to implement patients with agitated depression. Such patients need careful supervision, especially in the morning, as at this time there is a most melancholy mood.
Presence in the anamnesis at least one attemptto end life, is considered an urgent state in psychiatry, because such situations are almost always repeated again in all cases. Men commit suicide three times more often than women, although the representatives of the fair sex make four times more attempts than men. Most cases of completed suicide fall on the elderly.
A person prone to suicide, most oftenhas a premeditated plan of action, which usually does not hide. In addition to depressants, such patients are prescribed tranquilizers and neuroleptics (Sonapax, Tizercin, Relanium).
With hysterical disorders, patients often,with their characteristic drama in viewers, they are trying to die, although in reality they do not intend to put this life into practice. These cases are also an urgent condition, because the quick-tempered patients are not able to assess the irreversible consequences of their dangerous actions.
In the behavior of schizophrenics, suicidalinclinations due to hypochondriac delirium and imperative hallucinations. Among the patients there are individuals who often think about fatal experiments. Talks about such things often begin with phrases "interesting, and what will happen if I ..." and the like. This kind of suicide is almost impossible to foresee.
