نوع مقاله : مقاله های پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 استادیار، گروه جراحی عمومی، دانشکدهی پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
2 دانشجوی پزشکی، دانشکدهی پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
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کلیدواژهها
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نویسندگان [English]
Background:Trauma is the most common cause of death for people younger than 45 years. Chest injury is severely life-threatening and is associated with mortality and significant disability. Methods: This cross-sectional study was done on 252 treated patients with penetrating chest injuries during ten years period in Alzahra hospital in Isfahan, Iran. Data including age, sex, mechanism of trauma, complications of trauma, trauma associated, the need for surgical treatment, traumatic treatment onset, and mortality were collected from patients’ records. Collected data were analyzed with the SPSS statistical software. Finding: The mean age of studied patients was 35.02 ± 10.73 years. 89.2% of patients were men and 10.8% of them were women. The most common mechanism of trauma was the the knife injury. 109 patients needed surgery in the first 24 hours after trauma. Mortality rate in the studied population was 8.7%. Most deaths (6.8 percent) were observed in injured patients since that their treatment was started after 90 minutes of trauma. The average time of treatment was significantly different in two groups of living and dead patients.Conclusion:According to the results of this study, social and cultural activities seem to be necessary to help youth to ban carrying knives. In the other hand, control of the roads and encouraging people to observe rules can reduce the amount and severity of injuries.
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