Demographic Analysis of Fracture Profile of Patients at Accident & Emergency Department of Orthopedic Surgeriesand Traumatology (DOST)-Unit-1 Mayo Hospital Lahore

Abstract

Background: Trauma is a type of body wound, collapse or breakdown
due to unexpected physical injury like from collision or disaster. Trauma includes
various injuries and accidents; the data was analyzed for the patient's demographic
profiles, nature of severity of accidents, types of accidents, way of treatment of
various injuries and accidents. This is a non-randomized, hospital based, single
centered, retrospective study conducted at accident emergency (AE) department,
Mayo hospital Lahore. Materials and Methods: Data was collected from
department of orthopedic surgeries and traumatology king Edward medical
university Mayo hospital Lahore. In this study I have analyzed that the data for the
patients coming to A & E department with severe injuries occurring during
accidents over a period of time one year. Historical study design was used in this
project and I was provided with all the demographic data and required information.
Data was analyzed by using spss 11.5. Objectives: To analyze the demography of
fracture profiles of the patients at accident emergency department of orthopedic
surgery and traumatology (dost)-unit-1 Mayo hospital Lahore. Descriptive
Analysis: Descriptive statistical tools, frequency distribution, graphs, mean,
standard deviation, chi square and proportion was used to analyze the data.
Results: 1. the percentage of patients coming to accident and emergency
department in month of August was greatest i.e. 10.65% by month of October and
December having percentages 9.74% and 9.65% respectively. 2. Out of total 1970
patients 1511 (76.7%) were males and remaining 459 (23.3%) were females with
different types of injuries and fractures have come to A & E department over a
period of one year. 3. Out of 1970 patients 1608 (81.6%) patients were having
close fracture while 337 (17.1%) were having open fracture 4. frequency of bone
affected for hummers bone was 185 (9.4%). for femur was 427 (21.7%), for
scapula was 26 (1.3%), for ankle was 64 (3.2%), for clavicle was 114 (5.8%), for
ulna was 134 (6.8%), for radius was 164 (8.3%), for tibia was 330 (16.8%), for
hand was 279 (14.2%), for foot was 126 (6.4%), for pelvic dislocation was 32 (
1.6%), for patella was 44 (2.2%), for vertebral dislocation was14 (6.8%), for skull
was 1 (0.1%), for metacarpals was 20 (1%), for elbow was 5 (0.3%), for
metatarsals were 1 (0.1%) and for cervical was 2 (0.1%). Conclusions: From this
research I concluded that the proportion of accidents in summer season in months
of August and in winter season in months of October and December specially in
males were greater than in females and injuries of lower limb involving femur and
tibia was more common than fractures of upper limb in patients in year 2008.