Open AccessFrequency, causes and pattern of abdominal trauma: A 4-year descriptive analysis
Author(s) -
S. Arumugam,
Ammar Al-Hassani,
Ayman ElMenyar,
Husham Abdelrahman,
Ashok Parchani,
Rubén Peralta,
Ahmad Zarour,
Hassan AlThani
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.166590
Subject(s) - medicine , trauma center , abdominal trauma , injury severity score , incidence (geometry) , surgery , sepsis , intensive care unit , abbreviated injury scale , mortality rate , pneumonia , poison control , retrospective cohort study , injury prevention , emergency medicine , blunt , physics , optics
The incidence of abdominal trauma is still underreported from the Arab Middle-East. We aimed to evaluate the incidence, causes, clinical presentation, and outcome of the abdominal trauma patients in a newly established trauma center.