Abstract
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Abstract
Objective: To contribute to the national data on the
subject by analyzing WA-related ED admissions during a 1-year period in our center.
Method: Cases
admitted to our hospital due to a WA during a 1-year period were enrolled in
the study. Information regarding gender, age, accident date, injury mechanism,
injured body parts, consultations, diagnoses, severity of the injury, outcome
of the patient and the services which the admitted patients were admitted to
were gathered. p ≤.05 was considered to be significant.
Results: Three hundred and
eighty patients were enrolled in the study. A great majority of the victims (88.4%)
were male. Mean age of the cases was 34.88±9.74 years. The month with the
highest number of admissions was June (11.1%). WA victims mostly presented
during day-time period (54.7%). Contact with sharp objects was the most common injury
mechanism (34.2%). More than one third of the cases were consulted with at
least one department (34.2%). Upper extremities were the most commonly injured
body parts (51.3%). The most common diagnosis was mild soft tissue injury (40.0%).
Most of the cases (86.6%) were discharged from the emergency department; 12.6%
were admitted to our hospital; .8% were referred to another health care
facility, and none of the patients died in the emergency department.
Conclusions: WAs mostly affect young male workers; most of the WAs
occur during day-time period; WAs mostly occur as a result of contact with
sharp objects; mostly upper extremities are affected in which hands are the
most commonly injured part, and hand fingers form the part which has the
highest possibility of injury.
Keywords
Contact with sharp objects hand injury hand finger injury upper limb injury workplace accident work accident
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- Ng ZX, Teo LT, Go KT, Yeo YT, Chiu MT. Major workplace related accidents in Singapore: A major trauma centre's experience. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2010;39(12):920-7.
- Dağlı B, Serinken M. Occupational Injuries Admitted to the Emergency Department The Journal of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2012;11:167-70.
- Takala J, Hamalainen P, Saarela KL, et al. Global estimates of the burden of injury and illness at work in 2012. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2014;11(5):326-37.
- Sayhan MB, Sayhan ES, Yemenici S, Oguz S. Occupational injuries admitted to the emergency department. J Pak Med Assoc. 2013;63(2):179-84.
- Akdur O, Ozkan S, Durukan P, et al. Machine-related farm injuries in Turkey. Ann Agric Environ Med. 2010;17(1):59-63.
- Ozkan S, Kilic S, Durukan P, et al. Occupational injuries admitted to the Emergency Department. Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg. 2010;16(3):241-7.
- Serinken M, Turkcuer I, Dagli B, et al. Work-related injuries in textile industry workers in Turkey. Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg. 2012;18(1):31-6.
- Concha-Barrientos M, Nelson DI, Gingerhut M, Driscoll T, Leigh J. The global burden due to occupational injury. Am J Ind Med. 2005;48(6):470-81.
- Santana VS, Souza LE, Pinto IC. Health care costs and the socioeconomic consequences of work injuries in Brazil: a longitudinal study. Industrial Health. 2013;51(5):463-71.
- Ince H, Ince N, Ozyildirim BA. Occupational accidents and forensic medicine in Turkey. J Clin Forensic Med. 2006;13(6-8):326-30.
- Karakurt Ü, Satar S, Açıkalın A, Bilen A, Gülen M, Baz Ü. Analysis of Occupational Accidents Admitted to the Emergency Medicine Department. The Journal of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2013;12:19-23.
- Satar S, Kekec Z, Sebe A, Sarı A. Analysis of Occupational Accidents Admitted to the Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine Emergency Department. Cukurova Medical Journal. 2004;29:118-27.
- Lombardi DA, Sorock GS, Hauser R, et al. Temporal factors and the prevalence of transient exposures at the time of an occupational traumatic hand injury. J Occup Environ Med. 2003;45(8):832-40.
- Camino Lopez MA, Fontaneda I, Gonzalez Alcantara OJ, Ritzel DO. The special severity of occupational accidents in the afternoon: "the lunch effect". Accid Anal Prev. 2011;43(3):1104-16.
- Macdonald DJ, Sanati KA, Macdonald EB. The costs and characteristics of occupational injuries admitted to a trauma unit. Int J Occup Saf Ergon. 2012;18(4):587-90.
Details
| Primary Language | English |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Health Care Administration |
| Journal Section | Surgical Science Research Articles |
| Authors | |
| Publication Date | September 30, 2019 |
| Acceptance Date | October 1, 2019 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2019Volume: 41 Issue: 3 |