TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Characteristics of school injuries presenting to the emergency department
JO  - Avicenna journal of medicine
A1  - Özdemir, Serdar
A1  - Akça, Hatice Şeyma
A1  - Algin, Abdullah
A1  - Kokulu, Kamil
A1  - Özkan, Abuzer
SP  - 61
EP  - 66
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
N2  - Background  School injuries account for approximately one-fifth of pediatric injuries. We aimed to investigate the frequency and severity of school injuries among school-aged children and determine clinical diagnoses and surgery requirement data. <br><br>METHODS  In this prospective study, children who were admitted to the emergency department due to school accidents over a 5-month period were included. Demographics, activity during trauma, mechanism of trauma, nature, severity, emergency department outcomes, and surgery requirement were evaluated. <br><br>RESULTS  The study included a total of 504 school-aged children, of whom 327 (64.9%) were male and 177 (35.1%) were female. Of the children, 426 (84.5%) had no evidence of injury or minor injury, while 78 (15.5%) had moderate or severe injury. There was a statistically significant difference between these two groups in terms of gender ( p  = 0.031). Of the 78 children with moderate or severe injuries, 45 had extremity fractures, 18 had lacerations, 5 had maxillofacial injuries, 4 had cerebral contusion, 1 had lung contusion, and 1 had cervical soft-tissue damage. Two patients with fractures and two with eyelid lacerations were treated surgically, and four patients with brain contusion were hospitalized for a close follow-up. <br><br>CONCLUSION  This study revealed that the most common moderate or severe injuries in school accidents referred to emergency department were distal radius fractures and lacerations.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2231-0770
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1748832
ID  - ref1
ER  -