Table 4 Injuries by age-group, sex and mechanism of injury among patients attending the emergency of a Secondary Level Hospital in District Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India, 2012
Age & Sex | 0–14 | 15–24 | 25–44 | 45–64 | >64 | Unknown | Total | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
Road Traffic Crash | 14 (4.2) | 8 (2.4) | 65 (19.2) | 10 (3.0) | 120 (35.5) | 23 (7.1) | 61 (18.0) | 19 (5.6) | 12 (3.6) | 4 (1.2) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.6) | 272 (80.5) | 66 (19.5) | 338 (100) |
Quarrel | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 27 (24.6) | 6 (5.4) | 32 (29.1) | 16 (14.5) | 20 (18.2) | 6 (5.5) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (2.7) | 0(0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 79 (71.8) | 31 (28.2) | 110 (100) |
Fall | 15 (18.5) | 6 (7.4) | 20 (24.7) | 2 (2.5) | 19 (23.5) | 4 (4.9) | 8 (9.9) | 6 (7.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 62 (77.5) | 18 (22.5) | 80 (100) |
Stab/cut | 4 (11.1) | 1 (2.8) | 17 (47.2) | 2 (5.6) | 6 (16.7) | 1 (2.8) | 4 (11.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.8) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 32 (88.9) | 4 (11.1) | 36 (100) |
Other blunt force | 3 (13.6) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (36.4) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (27.3) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (13.6) | 1 (4.5) | 1 (4.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 21 (95.5) | 1 (4.5) | 22 (100) |
Animal bite | 1 (5.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (15.0) | 1 (5.0) | 8 (40.0) | 3 (15.0) | 2 (10.0) | 2 (10.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 14 (0.70) | 6 (0.30) | 20 (100) |
Fire/Heat | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (14.3) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (42.9) | 2 (28.6) | 1 (14.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (71.4) | 2 (28.6) | 7 (100) |
Poisoning | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (60.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (20.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (20.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (100) |
Drowning | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100) |
Gun shot | 1 (100) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100) |
Other | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (20.0) | 3 (20.0) | 4 (26.7) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (26.7) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (6.7) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (11.8) | 0 (0.0) | 14 (82.3) | 3 (17.7) | 17 (100) |
Unknown | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (33.3) | 1 (8.3) | 5 (41.7) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (16.7) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 11 (91.7) | 1 (8.3) | 12 (100) |
Total | 38 (5.8) | 15 (2.3) | 151 (23.3) | 25 (3.8) | 205 (31.6) | 49 (7.6) | 106 (16.3) | 34 (5.2) | 15 (2.3) | 7 (1.1) | 2 (0.3) | 2 (0.3) | 517 (79.7) | 132 (20.3) | 649 (100) |