Emergency Medicine: Open Access
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Yatoo GH

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• Research Article
  Profile and Outcome of Violence Related Injuries of Patients during Civilian Unrest in a Conflict zone
  Author(s): Syed Amin Tabish, Rauf A Wani, Mushtaq Ahmad, Natasha Thakur, Yatoo GH and Shadab Nabi Wani Syed Amin Tabish, Rauf A Wani, Mushtaq Ahmad, Natasha Thakur, Yatoo GH and Shadab Nabi Wani
  
  Background: Violence is an intrinsic phenomenon to a class based society which is inherently unequal and oppressive. In the episodes of contemporary violence civilians witness events such as shooting, killing or physical assault and get inadvertently entrapped. Methods: In a hospital based study, during 2010, the hospital received 630 violence related civilian patients of which 393 were admitted. Results: Of the 393 patients admitted 157 (39.94%) had head injuries, 131 (33.33%) limb injuries, 28 (7.12%) chest injuries and 24 (6.10%) abdominal injuries. Forty-three (10.94%) patients had multisystem injuries. Most of the patients had history of physical assault. Of all the injured admitted 159 (40.4%) were having major injuries of which 59 (37.10%) comprised head injuries, 24 (15.09%) chest trauma, 17 (10.69%) abdominal tr.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7548.1000141

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