title: Epidemiology of trauma patients and analysis of 268 mortality cases: trends of a single center in Korea.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  There is an increasing incidence of mortality among trauma patients; therefore, it is important to analyze the trauma epidemiology in order to prevent trauma death. The authors reviewed the trauma epidemiology retrospectively at a regional emergency center of Korea and evaluated the main factors that led to trauma-related deaths.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 17007 trauma patients were registered to the trauma registry of the regional emergency center at Wonju Severance Christian Hospital in Korea from January 2010 to December 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean age of patients was 35.2 years old. The most frequent trauma mechanism was blunt injury (90.8%), as well as slip-and-fall down injury, motor vehicle accidents, and others. Aside from 142 early trauma deaths, a total of 4673 patients were admitted for further treatment. The most common major trauma sites of admitted patients were on the extremities (38.4%), followed by craniocerebral, abdominopelvis, and thorax. With deaths of 126 patients during in-hospital treatment, the overall mortality (142 early and 126 late deaths) was 5.6% for admitted patients. Ages ≥55, injury severity score ≥16, major craniocerebral injury, cardiopulmonary resuscitation at arrival, probability of survival <25% calculated from the trauma and injury severity score were independent predictors of trauma mortality in multivariate analysis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The epidemiology of the trauma patients studied was found to be mainly blunt trauma. This finding is similar to previous papers in terms of demographics and mechanism. Trauma patients who have risk factors of mortality require careful management in order to prevent trauma-related deaths.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.
authors.forename: Chun Sung
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Byun
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea. nicecs@yonsei.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Il Hwan
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.
authors.forename: Joong Hwan
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.
authors.forename: Keum Seok
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Bae
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.
authors.forename: Kang Hyun
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.
authors.forename: Eunbi
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D017741:Survivors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Trauma; epidemiology; injury severity score; mortality; predictor