Assessment on pattern of orthopedic injuries and their disposition outcome among road traffic accident victims visited emergency department of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
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2019-06
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Addis Abeba University
Abstract
BACKGROUND Road Traffic Accident can be defined as an accident that occurs on a way or
street open to public traffic, resulting in one or more persons being killed or injured, and
involving at least one moving vehicle. World Health Organization (WHO) global status report
estimated that 1.35 million deaths occurred due to Road traffic accident worldwide in 2016. In
developing countries, road traffic injuries particularly affect economically active and productive
age’s group with peak age ranges 15-44 years.
OBJECTIVES The general objective of this study is to assess the pattern of orthopedic
injuries due to the road traffic accident in a patient visiting the emergency department of Addis
Ababa burn emergency and trauma Hospital.
METHODS Institutional based retrospective study was carried out among orthopedic injury
due to road traffic accident victims presenting to addis abeba burn, emergency and truma hspital
Totally 384 patients chart selected by using systematic sampling technique and data was entered
in Epi info 7 and export to SPSS version 25.
RESULT Total numbers of 384 RTA victims with orthopedic injury were undertaken in this
study. Types of injury, pattern and outcome were also analyzed. It is clear that fractures was
common.
CONCLUSION Road traffic accident victims were predominantly males and people aged 1530
years.
Pediastrian
and
passangers
were
the most
commonly
affected
victims.
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Pattern, road traffic accident, orthopedic injury