[ORL emergencies at a health center: a study of the incidence during 1990]

We present a retrospective study of 942 ENT emergencies in a Health Center (primary care), during the year 1990, treated by family physicians. They are analysed under different parameters such as date, time, sex, age, diagnosis, drug prescription and dispatch of the patients to the hospital. We carried out an analysis of the quality of the attention given.