Pain, breathlessness, bleeding, deranged vital signs and the acute inability to either
walk or talk usually mandate immediate hospital admission. All these presentations
are associated with a relatively small number of possible diagnoses and are often
managed by specific protocols. There are also a large number of other complaints and
nonspecific presentations, which often remain medically unexplained, that may prompt
hospitalization [
[1]
]. These presentations include generalized weakness and fatigue, which are among the
most frequently reported complaints in emergency care [
2
,
3
], diaphoresis, dizzy spells, “funny feelings”, light headedness and many others. Since
they can occur in virtually any illness known to man these complaints are not specific for any diagnosis and do not of themselves mandate admission to hospital.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: September 27, 2017
Accepted:
September 25,
2017
Received:
September 24,
2017
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