Epidemiology of Orthopedic Injuries among Patients Attending a Major Trauma Centre in Tamilnadu
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Background: Deaths due to injury are growing fast and doubling every sixth year in India. In India due to demographic transition, urbanization and industrialization injuries will become one of the major contributors of the total diseases burden by the years 2020. Objectives: to study the epidemiology of orthopedic injuries among the patients attending a major trauma centre in Tamilnadu. Methods: A retrospective study was carried out among 2368 patients who have attended with the history of accident/ injury to the orthopedic outpatients and inpatient department in a government tertiary care hospital in Tamil Nadu. Results: Majority of the injured were males (73.2%). The most common age group with complaints of injury was 20-39 age group (42.4%) followed by 40-59 age group (31.2%). common mode of injury was road traffic accidents (42%), followed by self sustained injury (36%) and assault (21.3%). Limb injuries were commonest orthopedic injury. Conclusion: The knowledge on the modes and types of injury will help the policy makers to draft prevention policies. As the road traffic accidents being the commonest mode of injuries our strategy in creating awareness on road safety among the public has to be improved and intensive test on the knowledge of road safety before giving license to drive in India has to be made more stringent.
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Manoharan A. , Selvaraj P. , Vasanthamani P.
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