Citation

Jian HS, Lv ZM, Li YY. Chin. J. Traumatol. 2010; 13(2): 101-102.

Affiliation

Emergency Department, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Chinese Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

20356446

Abstract

Objective: To study epidemiological characteristics and influential factors of in-hospital patients struck by the Wenchuan earthquake disaster. Methods: The clinical data of 196 cases were collected from 2 hospitals of Chongqing city, including age, sex, occupation, injury site, dwelling and injury severity score. Results: In this series, 31.63% victims'age was over 60 years, and 54.08% were farmers. Multiple trauma accounted for 35.71%, and lower limb injury for 33.67%. There was no significant difference on injury severity score between city dwellers and rural ones (P larger than 0.05). Conclusion: The earthquake injury is influenced by many factors. More attention should be paid to the treatment at first 5 days after injury and high risk population.

Language: en