title: Accident trauma--a descriptive hospital study.
abstract: The study was conducted at the casualty department of Government General Hospital, Madras, South India. Accident trauma patients, 1906, have attended the above department during a continuous period of one month round the clock and accounted for 15.3% of the total attendance of patients to the casualty department. Of those brought to hospital following accident trauma 1.8% were dead, 35.1% were due to road traffic accidents, 21.7% to household accidents and 20.9% to occupational accidents. Of the accident traumas 46.9% occurred in the age group 21-40 years. Males accounted for 80% of the patients. Injuries involving lower extremities accounted for 35.4% of the total injuries; head injuries accounted for 29.5%. Of the injuries 5.8% were life threatening, 7.4% severely disabling, 35.9% disabling and the rest were trivial injuries.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Community Medicine, Madras Medical College, India.
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Sathiyasekaran
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000367:Age Factors; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D012737:Sex Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification*