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Citation

Koizumi MS. Rev. Saude Publica 1992; 26(5): 306-315.

Vernacular Title

Padrao das lesoes nas vitimas de acidentes de motocicleta.

Affiliation

Departamento de Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Faculdade de Higiene e Saude Publica)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1342518

Abstract

An analysis of the injury patterns presented by inpatients of a government teaching hospital, known as one of the emergency centers of S. Paulo city, Brazil, is given the majority of victims are young, male adults and most of them were later discharged from the hospital. In relation to the injuries the majority of the patients were classified as being of minor injury grade (ISS between 1 and 9) and the most frequent injuries were extremity and pelvic fractures, surface trauma, traumatic brain injury and extremity and pelvic dislocations. Besides extremity and pelvic fractures, the victims who died showed abdominal organ injury and traumatic brain injury and the ISS was over 20. Head injury patients who had a high Glasgow Coma Scale score had a low ISS and vice-versa.


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