Clinical and Demographic Characteristics of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Isolated Hand and Wrist Injury

Yıl 2016, Cilt: 8 Sayı: 2, 28 - 40, 01.12.2016

Mahmut Yaman Recep Dursun Hasan Mansur Durgun Mustafa İçer Yılmaz Zengin Serkan Erbatur Mehmet Gem Mehmet Üstündağ Murat Orak Cahfer Güloğlu

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Background: Upper extremity travma are common cases which apply emergency department and particularly hand and wrist mostly effected. After patients apply emergency departments for such as injuries and because of that their daily activities affected. Our objective is to reveal in detail the aetiologies, demographic characteristics, clinical findings and results of patients, who are admitted to our emergency service with the complaint of hand and wrist trauma.
Methods In this study, records of hospitalized patients at ortopedics and traumatology service and plastic and reconstructive surgery services and the emergency services files of the patients who are admitted because of hand and wrist trauma to Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Emergency Department between 1 January 2014-31. December 2014 were reviewed. Clinical and demographic characteristics of the patients were retrospectively also operational requirements and results had studied Ethical approval was obtained for this study.
Results: In a 12 month study period a total of 600 patients were included. Patients with additional organ injury, major trauma were excluded from study. Isolated hand and wrist trauma, 474 cases were investigated. 128 were male, 346 female cases. The average age of our patients was 21.8 ± 17.8. The mean age of 22.6 ± 16.6, while men's average age of women was 19.5 ± 20.5
Conclusion: Consequently, a major part of the patients that admitted to emergency department with a hand injury was consisted of working, young men. Majority of the injuries observed in the patients examined were the injuries due to inadvertency and lack of education, which can be prevented by taking simple but necessary measures and by disseminating the vocational training programs.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Hand trauma, emergency departments, demographic characteristics

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