How many medical emergencies occur in the United States at events like
sporting events and rock concerts per total number of spectators?

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Clarification of Question by bluefire-ga on 04 May 2005 19:31 PDT

simpler answer would be OK, like
How many medical emergencies occur at rock concerts per total number of spectators?

This paper may be of interest to you:

http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu/Arbon.pdf

Thanks, pinkfreud-  the reference to Australian data may be what I end
up using, though American would be better-  I thought this would be an
easy one!-  if I do use it, I will ask you to enter it as a Response

as an Answer, that is

There is also a paper published by JAMA called 'Medical Care Delivery
at the 1996 Olympic Games', found at:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/279/18/1463.pdf


If you scroll down in the paper, at Table 4-Medical Service Use ...
the authors provide medical service rates per 10,000 spectators (the
average is 22.9 per 10,000, although the rates vary per venue
attended.)

You might also like to see 'Watching the Games: public health
surveillance for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games'
available at:

http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/57/2/102?ck=nck
At the bottom of that page there is a list of reference articles that
might also be helpful.

Thank you, af40.  I'm going to cancel the question now, and find out
how applicable this data might be.  I will repost if it turns out that
we really need American data.