Orthopedic Injuries Following the East Azerbaijan Earthquake

Elmi, Asghar; Sales, Jafar Ganjpour; Tabrizi, Ali; Soleimanpour, Jafar; Mohseni, Mohammad Ali

doi:10.5812/traumamon.8322

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“…Despite the fact that in different studies the most prevalent fractures were femur and hip injuries ( 8 , 12 , 13 ), the most prevalent injury in our study was the fracture of distal radius. Double fracture (Tibia and Fibula fractures or Radius and Ulna fractures at the same time) is an injury that only occurs following high-energy traumas and in most cases, it is accompanied by severe soft tissue injuries.…”

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Survey of 2582 Cases of Acute Orthopedic Trauma

et al. 2014

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Background:Orthopedic injuries are among the most common causes of mortality, morbidity, hospitalization, and economic burden in societies.Objectives:In this research, we study the prevalence of different types of trauma requiring orthopedic surgery.Patients and Methods:We conducted a cross-sectional study on 2582 patients with acute orthopedic injuries admitted to the orthopedic emergency ward at the Poursina Hospital (a referral center in Guilan province (northern Iran), during December 2010 through September 2011. Patients were examined and the data collection form was filled for each patient. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 19 and were listed in tables.Results:Of 2582 included cases, 1940 were male and 642 were female, with a mean age of 34.5 years. Most injuries were seen in the 25 to 44 year age group from rural areas. The highest frequency of trauma related to falls. On the other hand, bicycling and shooting had the lowest frequencies. There were 18 cases with limb amputation. Overall, 66.5% of patients had fractures, 5% had soft tissue lacerations, and 10% had dislocations.Conclusions:Identification of risk factors and methods of prevention is one of the most important duties of healthcare systems. Devising plans to minimize these risk factors and familiarizing people with them is prudent.

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“…Most of work put the upper limb at risk of injury due to the need of hand skills or need of muscular power or even when a person exposed to trauma to a lower limb, like fall or RTA, he would try to protect himself or hold the body by upper limb. Other studies done; in India (2011) [18] East Azerbaijan, (2013) [19] showed the same finding of predominated injuries of extremities and lower prevalent of pelvic injuries. The results of this study showed that road traffic accident made up 15% from all types of trauma.…”

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Study on Musculoskeletal Trauma in Al. Basrah General Hospital

Hamdan¹,

Maliki²,

Aziz³

2016

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Background: Trauma is considered as a major epidemic of non-communicable diseases in the current century. Aims: To assess the pattern and characteristics of the trauma in order to plan for injury reduction and control strategy for the future. Methods: A total of 1400 patients were enrolled during the period from 1 st June to 30 th of December 2015. Interview was done for all the patients who presented to the emergency department of the AL Basrah General Hospital with a history of trauma. Results: The mean age of the patients was 21.81±17.74 years. Nearly one third (33.0%) of the patients were at the age of 1-9 years. Males (68.8%) were more frequently seen than females. The people who finished primary school (33.8%) and those who worked as Laborers (31.5%) were more exposed to trauma. Blunt trauma constituted (74.6%) of the main types and fall from standing (36.9%) was the most common type of blunt trauma followed by RTA (15.5%). Soft tissue injuries presented in (61.8%) of trauma patients and mostly were minor trauma (89.6%). Conclusion: Trauma is a major health problem, especially in the young male with age less than 20 years. Blunt trauma is more frequent than penetrating trauma, fall from standing accounting for the majority. Laborers with low educational level were more commonly exposed to trauma. High population density areas were increasing the rate of accidents.

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“…With the exception of one article, closed fractures resulted more frequently than open fractures. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Given the state of the collected data, it is impossible to establish if there is any statistically significant prevalence of a type of fracture or of an anatomical region affected among trauma patients resulting from any given earthquake. This contradicts the understanding that upper and lower extremity injuries are more frequent during nightly/early morning than daytime earthquakes, respectively 6,21 (Table 2).…”

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“…With the exception of two studies, all articles reported that fractures affected more lower than upper limbs. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]17,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] No association was found between short time-to-treatment and lower number of complications; amputation rate; or use of EF rather than ORIF. Qualitatively, it is possible to define that there are more open fractures during daytime hours than at night.…”

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Earthquake-Related Orthopedic Injuries in Adult Population: A Systematic Review

Bortolin

Morelli

Voskanyan

et al. 2017

Prehosp. Disaster med.

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The searches identified 4,704 articles: 4,445 after duplicates were removed. The papers were screened for title and abstract and 65 out of those were selected for full-text analysis. The quality of data does not permit a standard-of-care (SOC) to be defined. Scarcity and poor quality of the data collected also may suggest a low level of accountability of the activity of the international hospital teams. Qualitatively, it is possible to define that there are more open fractures during daytime hours than at night. Excluding data about open and closed fractures, for all types of injuries, the results underline that the higher the impact of the earthquake, as measured by Richter Magnitude Scale (RMS), the higher is the number of injuries. Discussion Regarding orthopedic injuries during earthquakes, special attention must be paid to the management of the lower limbs most frequently injured. Spinal cord involvement following spine fractures is an important issue: this underlines how a neurosurgeon on a disaster team could be an important asset during the response. Conservative treatment for fractures, when possible, should be encouraged in a disaster setting. Regarding amputation, it is important to underline how the response and the quality of health care delivered is different from one team to another. This study shows how important it is to improve, and to require, the accountability of international disaster teams in terms of type and quality of health care delivered, and to standardize the data collection. Bortolin M , Morelli I , Voskanyan A , Joyce NR , Ciottone GR . Earthquake-related orthopedic injuries in adult population: a systematic review. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2017;32(2):201-208.

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Orthopedic Injuries Following the East Azerbaijan Earthquake

Cited by 49 publications

References 12 publications

Survey of 2582 Cases of Acute Orthopedic Trauma

Survey of 2582 Cases of Acute Orthopedic Trauma

Study on Musculoskeletal Trauma in Al. Basrah General Hospital

Earthquake-Related Orthopedic Injuries in Adult Population: A Systematic Review

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