Publication: Evaluation Of Patients Admitted to the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Level Hospital with Extremity Laceration on Feast of Sacrifice
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2021-10-31
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Background and aim: This study aimed to evaluate the patients who applied to the emergency department of a university hospital due to extremity laceration and were consulted to a hand surgery
clinic on the Feast of sacrifice in 2021.
Results: Fifty patients were evaluated. The mean age of the patients was 40. 90% of the patients were
made on the first day of the Feast of sacrifice. 98% of the patients were male. The occupation of
18 patients was a butcher. When the educational status of the injured patients was examined, they
were literate (n=2), primary school (n=12), secondary school (n=15), high school (n=16), university
(n=5) graduates. An average of 63.38 minutes was found between laceration and admission to the
hospital. Extremity lacerations occurred in 6 patients during pre-sacrifice, 28 during the sacrifice, and
16 patients after sacrifice. Finger in 31 patients, hand in 6 patients, wrist in 3 patients, forearm in
6 patients, foot in 1patient, and in the cruris region in 3patients laceration was detected. Skin-subcutaneous-fascia laceration was in 31 patients, extensor tendon injury in 8 patients, flexor tendon injury
(superficial and deep) in 1patient, digital nerve injury in 8 patients, 2 (presented with digital artery
incision in 4%, radial artery injury in 1 patient, tip amputation in 3 patients, and total finger amputation in 1 patient. 40 patients were treated as outpatients, and 7 patients were treated as inpatients.
3 patients left the hospital with treatment rejection.
Conclusions: Injuries related to sacrificial slaughter create a significant workload in emergency services during the Feast of sacrifice. Prevention of extremity morbidity and mortality associated with
laceration injuries is only possible with experienced teams in the field of emergency medicine and
microsurgery.
Methods: Demographic characteristics, laceration time, hospital admission time, laceration size,-
laceration localization, injured structures, type of treatment were recorded prospectively. The data
were analyzed retrospectively.
Keywords : extremity injury, feast of sacrifice, laceration
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extremity injury, feast of sacrifice, laceration
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BAYSAL Ö., KARACABEY S., \"Evaluation Of Patients Admitted to the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Level Hospital with Extremity Laceration on Feast of Sacrifice\", University of Health Science,1. International Emergency Medicine Congress, Muğla, Türkiye, 28 - 31 Ekim 2021