[Emergency center patients from the psychiatric and psychosomatic viewpoint]

100 patients of a surgical and internistic emergency ward of a general hospital were examined from the psychosomatic and psychiatric angle. 20 patients remained without surgical and internistic diagnosis; under this aspect, only 3% had no psychic principal sign. In 50%, psychic symptoms were seen. This leads the authors to demand inclusion of the psychosomatic-psychiatric discipline when rendering first aid, in the form of interdisciplinary co-operation.