Top 10 presenting complaints in triage CAT1 and CAT2 in 2020 lockdown weeks and same period in 2019
| 2019 | 2020 | |||||||
| CAT1 (n=146) | CAT2 (n=1134) | CAT1 (n=88) | CAT2 (n=544) | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Breathing difficulty | 44 | 30 | 423 | 37 | 14 | 16 | 151 | 28 |
| Seizure (fit) | 25 | 17 | 41 | 4 | 21 | 24 | 21 | 4 |
| Head injury | 16 | 11 | 80 | 7 | 14 | 16 | 35 | 6 |
| Fever | 7 | 5 | 111 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 102 | 19 |
| Injury of hip/leg/knee/ankle/foot | 6 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| Major trauma (serious injury>1 body area) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0.3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Injury of thorax | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Localised swelling/redness/lumps/bumps | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0.2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Rash | 3 | 2 | 63 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 4 |
| Injury of abdomen | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0.4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.2 |
CAT1, category 1; CAT2, category 2.