Pattern of bony injuries among civilian gunshot victims at tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakist

来源 :中华创伤杂志(英文版) | 被引量 : 0次 | 上传用户:liantonglingsheng
下载到本地 , 更方便阅读
声明 : 本文档内容版权归属内容提供方 , 如果您对本文有版权争议 , 可与客服联系进行内容授权或下架
论文部分内容阅读
Purpose:Firearm injuries impose a continuous economic burden on society and hospital resources.The aim of this study was to assess the patt of bony injuries among victims of gunshots.Methods:A retrospective study was conducted in the Department of Orthopedics,Dow University of Health Sciences and Civil Hospital Karachi from January 2011 to December 2012.Patients with isolated bony injuries were included while patients with other systemic injuries were excluded.Results:There were 90 cases and the majority of them were male (84.4%).Mean age was (32,52 ± 10.27) years.Most of the patients (72.2%) belong to the younger age group.A low velocity weapon was used in 61 (67.8%) cases and a high velocity weapon was used in 29 (32.2%) cases.Armed robbery (64.4%) was the cause of conflict in more than half of the cases.Lower limb was involved in 72.2%.Fifty eight (64.4%) patients remained hospitalized for 15-20 days and others for more than 20 days.Intal fixation with intramedullary nailing was done in 35 patients while K-wire was used in 5 patients.Fifty patients were managed with extal fixation,either uniplanar or multiplanar ilizarov.Deep wound infection and nonunion were observed more often in high velocity injuries.Conclusion:Armed robbery was the leading cause of gunshot bony injuries in our hospital.Young males were victimized in a majority of cases.High velocity injuries were associated with more complications.
其他文献
简介rn目前,越来越多的汽车电子系统应用照明设计师正在采用LED照明满足实用和美观的用途.众所周知,LED适用于各种汽车照明元件,例如大灯、白天行车灯、雾灯、转向信号灯、内
Background Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) has been demonstrated to have anti-neoplastic activity, but the effective concentration of EGCG and its possible me
探讨了830 nm半导体微激光光灸穴位和肌筋膜扳机点(MTrPs)治疗背肌筋膜炎患者的疗效.预实验收集背肌筋膜炎患者,分为光灸1组4例、光灸2组6例、光灸3组7例和针灸组6例,光灸组
随着我国国民经济的持续高速发展和人民生活水平的不断提高,科学技术是第一生产力已成为社会发展不争的事实并为广大人民群众所接受。目前我国国民生产的增加值中直接由科技
引言rn被动门禁(Passive Entry,PE)系统在汽车舒适度和安全性方面正在引领一个新的发展趋势.尽管这种技术几年前就已经问世了,但直到最近才开始快速流行,主要是因为系统集成
Purpose: To investigate and analyze the clinical and etiological characteristics of community-acquired intraabdominal infections (CIAIs) and hospital-acquired o
阿姆斯特丹每年5月24—25日都要在R A I展览中心举行零售商品牌年会。《百利怡杂志》对这个零售商品牌产品的年会进行了多年跟踪报道——对生活用纸生产商来说,这是个有兴趣的
Explosive blast injury has become the most prevalent injury in recent military conflicts and terrorist attacks.The magnitude of this kind of polytrauma is compl
1临床资料患者农民,男,34岁,已婚。因为反复腹泻、剑突下疼痛2年,加重半月,于1996年10月入院。1994年起不明原因每隔3~5d出现1~2d大便次数增加,为黄色稀便或水样便,量较多,发