Open AccessThe characteristics of patients in mass public shootings among coup attempt in Turkey: A single-center hospital response
Author(s) -
Kurtuluş Açıksarı,
Mehmet Koçak,
Görkem Alper Solakoğlu,
Ömer Turan,
Samet Erinç,
Özgür Ekinci,
Ebuzer Aydın
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.28
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1306-696X
DOI - 10.14744/tjtes.2019.96821
Subject(s) - medicine , glasgow coma scale , injury severity score , trauma center , abbreviated injury scale , emergency medicine , revised trauma score , injury prevention , emergency department , retrospective cohort study , poison control , occupational safety and health , surgery , pathology , psychiatry
Turkey is an experienced country for both military and civilian mass casualties that arise from explosions and shootings by various terrorist groups. In this study, we aimed to investigate the characteristics of patient flow admitted to our hospital caused by primarily gunshot wounds during the coup attempts on the 15th of July.