[Incidence of multiple injuries in children 1977-1986]

Rozhl Chir. 1989 Sep;68(8-9):578-84.
[Article in Czech]

Abstract

The authors give an account of multiple injuries in children during a ten-year period. Injuries are divided into different groups according to the dominating injury--head, chest, abdomen, pelvis, urogenital system, extremities and injuries without a dominant. From the total number of 277 casualties there were 101 with a predominating injury of the head, 35 of the chest, 41 of the abdomen, 24 of the pelvis and urogenital system, 71 of the extremities and 4 without a dominant. Deaths were recorded after dominating head injuries in 11.8%, after dominating abdominal injuries in 7.3% and in the group without a dominant in 75%. In the remaining group no deaths were recorded. Attention is paid also to the diagnosis and therapeutic tactics of these serious conditions and the necessity to establish the order in which to implement therapeutic procedures in multiple injuries.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Czechoslovakia / epidemiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Multiple Trauma / epidemiology*
  • Multiple Trauma / pathology