Paediatric Trauma Epidemiology in an Urban Scenario in India

Abstract

An effective accident prevention programme in developing countries requires changes in lifestyle and environment, and overcoming obstacles such as ignorance, illiteracy, and inadequate resources.

Epidemiology of Fractures and Dislocations in Children

“…This is still relatively higher than the result of Indonesian national basic health research in 2013 which showed that road traffic accident accounted for 42.1% of injuries in East Java province, (Riskedas 2013) but is in contrast with figures reported by Rennie and his colleagues in the UK where only 6.7% of all fractures were related to road traffic accidents (Rennie et al 2007) and also by Tandonand his colleagues (25.0%) in urban India (Tandon et al 2007). Further study on the design of road safety programs and protective gears for children should be conducted in order to ensure that they are able to effectively reduce the risk of fractures or dislocations in Indonesian pediatric age group.…”

“…These figures were still lower than other published studies in Malaysia, India, and USA (Tandon et al 2007;Mohamed et al 2012;Goulding 2007;Barr 2014), maybe because of the soaring stature of road traffic accidents in Indonesia which plummeted the percentage of other causes. The very same explanation might also attributed to fall from a low height in which is the most common mechanism of injury reported by other studies (Rennie et al 2007;Mohamed et al 2012), yet comes only second in this study ( Table 2).…”

Childhood injuries in a tertiary institution in north east Nigeria

“…This is similar to reports from other studies from developed and developing countries. [1,[3][4][5][6] In contrast to these reports, the study by Adesunkanmi et al [2] revealed near equal male and female proportions.…”

“…[4,5] Several factors have been identified that influence childhood injuries, including sex, age, behaviour and environments. [6] All these factors played a significant role in this study.…”

Epidemiological characteristics of pediatrics fracture at tertiary care hospital, Malaysia

“…Most of the fracture cases were caused due to fall (77.2%) and it was similar with the results of other studies. 2,7,12 Globally road traffic accidents are the foremost cause of unnatural deaths in children that is estimated to contribute to an annual loss of more than 260,000 lives in the 0-19-year age group. 13 The increase in road traffic accidents is a major problem in Malaysia attributed to the carelessness and disregarding of traffic rules by the drivers.…”