Antecedentes.- El accidente Cerebro Vascular es una de las principales causas de invalidez y mortalidad a nivel mundial. La forma Hemorrágica constituye el 20% del total de ACVs, y su mortalidad es mucho mas alta y precoz (35-52% dentro de los 30 primeros dias). La HTA constituye el factor causal reconocido mas importante.

Objective. To determine the demand for medical care in the last decade. Design. Retrospective study. Participants. Patients aged 14 years or more attended at the Emergency Service of a tertiary hospital. Interventions. The institutional system was reviewed and analyzed with SPSS 21.0. Main outcome measures. Number of patients, demand profile, time slot, day and month of visit, destination, emergency room stay, and mortality. Results. 164 370 attentions were recorded during 2015, the patient’s average age was 57 years (SD 20), female 57.5%, came preferably in the morning, most often in laboring days (Monday), with a similar frequency every month, which declined in national holidays and Christmas. The daily average of attended, admitted and overnight staying patients in observation rooms increased respectively in 49%, 8%, and 78% in the last decade; the average of overnight patients decr...