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Table 1 Clinical diagnoses of the patients

Diagnosis	Details	Number of patients^a
Respiratory	Pneumonia (33), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (14), acute asthma (3), bronchial carcinoma (3), pneumothorax (3), pharyngeal obstruction (2), toxic pulmonary oedema (2), Wegener's granulomatosis (1)	61
Cardiovascular	Myocardial infarction (12), heart failure (11), pulmonary embolism (2) haemorrhagic shock (1)	26
Abdominal	Gastrointestinal bleeding (7), abdominal infection (6), urinary tract infection (5), acute renal failure (3), hepatic coma (3)	24
Cerebral	Ischaemic stroke (5), subarachnoid (4) or intracerebral (3) haemorrhage, seizures (3), suicidal intoxication with sedatives (5), cavernous sinus thrombosis (1)	21
Others	Leukaemia (7), postoperative (6), diabetic coma (3), other infections (3)	19

^aOne patient can have more than one diagnosis, and so the total exceeds the absolute number of patients (n = 101).