Trauma | Road traffic accidents |
Assault/mob justice | |
Burns | |
Blunt trauma | |
Bleeding (traumatic) | |
Fractures | |
Other trauma* | |
Penetrating trauma (stabbing, GSW) | |
Snakebites | |
Riots/mass casualty incidents | |
Sexual assault/rape | |
Electrocution | |
Suicide | |
Bites (dog, spider, crocodile) | |
Medical | Loss of consciousness |
Difficulty breathing/asthma | |
Overdose/poisoning (alcohol, drugs, poisons, pesticides) | |
Drowning | |
Seizures/epilepsy | |
Hypertension | |
Infection | |
Infectious disease exposure | |
Pneumonia | |
Non-traumatic bleeding (nose, ulcers, varicose veins) | |
Malaria (cerebral) | |
Chest pain/heart attack | |
Foreign body (in airway) | |
‘Sick’ (non-specific) | |
Abdominal pain | |
Obstetric | Labour |
Birth complications, ectopic pregnancy, abortion complications |
*Sports injuries, eye injuries, self-circumcision, accidents, being buried alive, children hurt while playing, hanging, overeating.
GSW, gunshot wounds.