Demographic Study of Blunt Trauma Chest in Varanasi Region
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v16i2.17911Keywords:
Blunt Trauma Chest, Demographic Data, DeathAbstract
The mortality rate of chest trauma is 10%. Incidence has significantly increased due to development of
rapid mode of transport, new high speed vehicles, ignorance of road safety measures, fall from height,
fall on road injuries due to construction activities violence ,fall from under construction building.
Human fatality associated with chest injuries worsening each year.
This drew the impact on reducing burden of chest trauma ,prevention and its measures at social, medical,
economical, and governmental. So that understanding the problem is the one of the first step towards
awareness and averting the problem.
Present study has been undertaken to analyse the most neglected aspect of human suffering . It is an
effort to know the pattern of blunt trauma chest and to elucidate the multi-factorial causations leading
to rise in everyday blunt trauma cases.
Here in this paper 300 cases of chest injuries by blunt forces are studied for their epidemiological,
demographic aspects. Majority of them are adult/middle ages male between 41 -50 years of age ,most
of them are caused by road traffic accidents. Male to female ratio is 7.1:1.Majority of the cases are
happened on highway.
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