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Accident Trauma — A Descriptive Hospital Study

Institute of Community Medicine, Madras Medical College, Madras 600 003, India

THE STUDY was conducted at the casualty department of Government General Hospital, Madras, South India. Accident trauma patients, 1906, have attended the above department during a continuous period of one month round the clock and accounted for 15.3% of the total attendance of patients to the casualty department. Of those brought to hospital following accident trauma 1.8% were dead, 35.1% were due to road traffic accidents, 21.7% to household accidents and 20.9% to occupational accidents.

Of the accident traumas 46.9% occurred in the age group 21-40 years. Males accounted for 80% of the patients. Injuries involving lower extremities accounted for 35.4% of the total injuries; head injuries accounted for 29.5%. Of the injuries 5.8% were life threatening, 7.4% severely disabling, 35.9% disabling and the rest were trivial injuries.

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 111, No. 1, 10-11 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/146642409111100104


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