High Energy Trauma Patients Treated in the Department of General Surgery in a Secondary Emergency Facility in Japan

High Energy Trauma Patients Treated in the Department of General Surgery in a Secondary Emergency Facility in Japan

[Abstract] [Objective]: We clarified the characteristics of the high energy trauma patients that entered the general surgery ward of Fukuoka city hospital (FCH), a 200 bed secondary emergency hospital in Japan. [Patients and Methods]: Of the 7,826 total ambulance cases treated from April 2008 to Mar...

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Veröffentlicht in:FUKUOKA ACTA MEDICA 2013-08, Vol.104 (8), p.249-256
Hauptverfasser: Okuyama, Toshiro, Matsumoto, Shoiku, Yoshino, Shinichiro, Hirakawa, Katsuyuki, Kishikawa, Masanobu, Yoshida, Kisaku, Saito, Taichi, Higashi, Takahiro, Morita, Kazutoyo, Nagata, Shigeyuki, Uchiyama, Hideaki, Eguchi, Daihiko, Endo, Kazuya, Kawanaka, Hirofumi, Tomikawa, Morimasa, Tateishi, Masahiro, Korenaga, Daisuke, Takenaka, Kenji
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Sprache:eng
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Accidents, Traffic - statistics & numerical data
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Emergency Medical Services
Female
General Surgery
Hospital Departments
Humans
Japan - epidemiology
Male
Middle Aged
Wounds and Injuries - classification
Wounds and Injuries - epidemiology
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Zusammenfassung:[Abstract] [Objective]: We clarified the characteristics of the high energy trauma patients that entered the general surgery ward of Fukuoka city hospital (FCH), a 200 bed secondary emergency hospital in Japan. [Patients and Methods]: Of the 7,826 total ambulance cases treated from April 2008 to March 2012 in our emergency room, 831 trauma patients who entered our hospital were analyzed. These patients were classified into a non high energy (NHE) and high energy trauma (HE) group based on the mechanisms of injuries. [Results]: Of the 831 trauma cases, 741 (89.2%) were in the NHE and 90 (10.8%) were in the HE group. Eleven of the 741 cases (1.5%) in the NHE group and 18 of the 90 cases (20.0%) in the HE group entered the Department of General Surgery as inpatients, with the frequency being significantly higher in the latter group (p
ISSN:0016-254X