Patterns and Severity of Injuries in Patients Following Road Traffic Accidents – A Medicolegal Aspects

Chaudhary, Archana; Wasti, Harihar

doi:10.3126/egn.v2i1.27455

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“…In another study of 360 patients by Shahzad et al, first riders (65%) sustain head injuries more often than 2nd riders. It also showed that facial injury was usually a major injury [22], which is in line with another study, where facial injury was also considered one of the commonest among patients involved in RTAs [23].…”

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Patterns of Associated Injuries in Patients with Mild/Moderate Head Injuries

Odeyemi

Offorbuike

Eniayekan

et al. 2020

EUR J BASIC MED SCI

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Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) or head injuries are injuries or trauma to the scalp and or brain caused by an outside force, usually a violent blow or collision to the head by accident or deliberate attack. It can also be called be craniocerebral trauma. TBI are examples of acquired, non-degenerative assault to the brain from an external mechanical force, causing impairment of brain functions, with or without alteration to the mental state or consciousness of the victim. This paper provides a synopsis of the epidemiology and patterns of associated injuries in mild and moderate head injuries in literature. Mild and moderate head injuries were selected because they are by far commoner than severe head injuries and the outcomes are widely varied than severe head injuries. Traumatic brain injury is a global and public health problem, which in the coming years, might be the leading cause of death in Africa. High incidence is found among the adolescent and the adult age group and gender-wise, it is common among the males of the same age group. Likewise, the provision of an ambulance system and standard healthcare facilities to manage 18 patients with a traumatic brain injury can not be overemphasized.

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Section: Maxillofacial Injuriessupporting

confidence: 86%

Patterns of Associated Injuries in Patients with Mild/Moderate Head Injuries

Odeyemi

Offorbuike

Eniayekan

et al. 2020

EUR J BASIC MED SCI

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“…Life threatening injuries are not well descried in the national penal code act 2017 of Nepal but as described in previous literatures are those injuries with eminent risk of the death if treatment is not received promptly. 16 Which includes the cases like traumatic brain injuries, skull fractures, and so on.…”

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Patterns and Severity of Injuries in Patients Following Physical Assault– A Medicolegal Aspects

Chaudhary¹,

Kunwar

Ghimire

et al. 2020

Eastern Green Neurosurg.

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Background and purpose: Physical assault (PA) is a common cause of mortality and morbidity throughout the world and the prevalence is still very high in underdeveloped and developing countries. With the objective to see the spectrum of injury following PA from the medico legal point of view, this study was design in a tertiary care centre at far eastern part of Nepal. Material and method: This is a prospective analytical study with non- probability consecutive sampling of physical assault cases presented in the emergency department over the duration of 4 months. All the patients who meet the inclusion criteria were collected in preformed proforma. Gender, types of weapons used for PA, location of external and internal injuries, various treatment strategies, and severity of injuries were presented in frequencies and percentage. Association of different age categories, gender and types of weapons used with severity of injuries were analysed using Chi square/ Fisher’s exact test wherever applicable. Result: There were total 99 patients presented with physical assault during the study period with mean age of presentation 31.69 (SD 13.38) Years with male (70%) predominance. Among various types of weapons used for PA; punches/ kicks were used in 50% of assaults followed by blunt heavy objects (35%) and sharp heavy weapons (14%). Location of the external injuries were more common in head and neck area . Obvious internal injuries were seen in 14% of the assaulted patients. Among all the case of PA, 42% patients needed some sort of surgical intervention during hospital stay. There were 9% cases of grievous injury and 6% had life threatening injuries. Conclusion: Physical assault is a common mode of injuries in eastern Nepal, where young males are more prone to such injuries. Violence are commonly carried out using fists, kicks and blunt objects. Severity of injuries is similar with all the types of weapons used.

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Frequency of Intracranial Hematomas Related to Traumatic Skull or Facial Injuries Evaluated on Computed Tomography

Asif

Nazir

Farooq

et al. 2022

PBMJ

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Patients sustaining maxillofacial fractures are at risk of accompanying traumatic intracranial hematomas, which are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Prompt recognition of the clinical signs, followed by a neurosurgical inspection and diagnosis, is crucial for improving patient survival and recovery. Objective: To determine frequency of intracranial hematoma related to traumatic skull and facial injuries evaluated on Computed Tomography. Methods: This study was conducted on 195 patients from radiological department of Lahore General hospital who had road traffic accident. In this Cross-sectional study conduction advance 16 multislice CT device which shows advanced desire 3D and was used to assess intracranial hematoma in patients with skull and facial fractures. All patients with intracranial hematomas related to skull and facial injuries in trauma center and all age groups without any gender specificity were included in this study. All patients having bleeding disorders or using anti-coagulant were excluded. Results: Out of 195 patients in which 48 (24.6%) were females and 147 (75.4%) were males. 132 (67.7%) patients out of 195 patients had headache, 64 (32.8%) patients had nausea, 116 (59.5%) patients had vomiting, 149 (76.4%) patients had speaking difficulty, 71 (36.4%) patients had External bleeding and 133 (68.2%) had consciousness. Total number of 195 patients out of which 179 (91.8%) had Intracranial hematoma. Conclusion: On the basis of the results it was concluded that head and facial injury had increase prevalence rate in people with road traffic accident but no significant difference was observed between head and facial fracture cases with ICH.

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Patterns and Severity of Injuries in Patients Following Road Traffic Accidents – A Medicolegal Aspects

Cited by 4 publications

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Patterns of Associated Injuries in Patients with Mild/Moderate Head Injuries

Patterns of Associated Injuries in Patients with Mild/Moderate Head Injuries

Patterns and Severity of Injuries in Patients Following Physical Assault– A Medicolegal Aspects

Frequency of Intracranial Hematomas Related to Traumatic Skull or Facial Injuries Evaluated on Computed Tomography

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