Epidemiological profile of extremity fractures in victims of motorcycle accidents
AUTOR(ES)
Batista, Flamarion dos Santos, Silveira, Leandro Oliveira, Castillo, Jesús José André Quintana, Pontes, Jady Elen de, Villalobos, Luz Delícia Castillo
FONTE
Acta ortop. bras.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2015-02
RESUMO
Objective: Show the epidemiological profile of limb fractures in victim of motorcycle accident seen at the Emergency Department of Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba (HUEC), Curitiba, PR, Brazil, from January 2007 to December 2013, as well as to compare the results with data from the literature.Methods:This is a retrospective, descriptive, observational study. The information was obtained from the analysis of all the medical records from January 2007 to December 2013 belonging to the hospital archives. Only extremity fractures cases from motorcycle accident victims were analyzed, according to the medical records and radiological reports. The ICD-10 was used as classification criterion, and the fractures were grouped depending on the topography of the injury. The following variables were considered: number of victims, gender, age and fracture site, in order to create a database to contrast with the literature.Results: During seven years, 3,528 motorcycle accident victims have been identified, 88.29% being male, whereas 11.71% being female. The average age of the victims was 29.7 years old, observing a strong inverse correlation between the number of victims and their ages. There has been 4,365 fractures, being 59.66% in lower limbs and 40.34% in upper limbs. From that total, 18.14% were leg fractures, 11.57% were hand fractures and 10.65% were wrist fractures.Conclusion: This study has met its objectives and the results were similar to the national literature. Level of Evidence II, Retropective Study.
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