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Table 1 Distribution of diseases from different departments

From: Pattern of neurological disease seen among patients admitted in tertiary care hospital

Disease

Number & percentage of patients from different departments

Diagnostic break down (number, %)

Medicine

Surgery

Obs & Gynae

Cardiology

ICU

Burn and plastic surgery

Stroke (159, 47.5)

89(56)

6 (3.8)

4(42.5)

56(35.2)

2(1.3)

2(1.3)

Seizure (31,9.3)

21(67.7)

2(6.5)

4(12.9)

0

0

4(12.9)

CNS infection (13, 3.9)

13(100)

0

0

0

0

0

Peripheral neuropathy (13, 3.9)

13(100)

0

0

0

0

0

GBS (3, 0.9)

3(100)

0

0

0

0

0

MND (11, 3.3)

8(72.7)

0

3(27.3)

0

0

0

Cord disease (26, 7.8)

24(92.3)

2(7.3)

0

0

0

0

Dementia (5, 1.5)

5(100)

0

0

0

0

0

Tumor (5, 1.5)

3(60)

2(40)

0

0

0

0

Coma (12, 3.6)

6(50)

0

2(16.7)

0

4(33.3)

0

Encephalopathy (21, 6.3)

12(57.1)

4(19)

2(9.5)

3(14.3)

0

0

Functional (6, 1.8)

6(100)

0

0

0

0

0

Undiagnosed clinically (30, 9)

28(93.3)

0

2(6.7)

0

0

0

Total number and (%) of patients within different departments

231 (69%)

16 (3.2%)

15 (3%)

61 (18.2%)

6 (1.8%)

6 (1.8%)