Epidemiological features of 937 patients wounded in China Wenchuan earthquake / 中华创伤杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the epidemiological features of 937 patients wounded in China Wenchuan earthquake. Methods An analysis was done on 937 patients treated in the city of Deyang in aspects fo their gender,age,injury causes,wound sites,complications and misdiagnosis.Results There were more wounded females than males,with ratio of male to female of 1:1.12.The main injury causes were crush injury and falling injury.The most frequent injury sites include head,chest,ankle and foot,tibia and fibula,spine and hip.The rate of misdiagnosis was as high as 15.5%,mainly brain injuries and chest iniuries. Conclusion The main causes are crush iniury and falling in-jury.Lower limb fractures account for the most.While close brain and thoracic injuries are likely to be misdiagnosed.