Reasons for medical consultation among members of the Indian Scientific Expeditions to Antarctica

Figures & data

Table I. Distribution of medical consultations by expedition and medical specialty

	13th ISEA	15th ISEA	17th ISEA	22nd ISEA	24th ISEA	27th ISEA	29th ISEA	Total	%
Medicine	245	78	426	55	53	232	66	1155	58.1
Surgery	120	64	20	26	42	37	9	318	16.0
Orthopaedics	101	16	171	19	0	25	7	339	17.0
Ophthalmology	14	1	13	6	5	11	2	52	2.6
Otolaryngology	34	11	0	4	0	18	7	74	3.7
Dentistry	14	15	0	6	9	2	5	51	2.6
	528	185	630	116	109	325	96	1989	100.0

Table II. Distribution of medical consultations by ICD-10 chapters

	ICD-10 chapters	n	%
	Total	1989	100.0
I	Certain infectious/parasitic	11	0.6
IV	Endocrine/nutritional/metabolic	18	0.9
V	Mental/behavioural	40	2.0
VI	Nervous	3	0.2
VII	Eye/adnexa	49	2.5
VIII	Ear/mastoid	21	1.1
IX	Circulatory	152	7.6
X	Respiratory	44	2.2
XI	Digestive	501	25.2
XII	Skin/subcutaneous	288	14.5
XIII	Musculoskeletal/connective	45	2.3
XIV	Genitourinary	6	0.3
XVIII	Symptoms/signs	217	10.9
XIX	Injury/poisoning	593	29.8
XXI	Contact with health system	1	0.1