Surgical Emergencies in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Brief Overview
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Medical Research - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Introduction: Emergency admissions form a major bulk of total surgical admissions. This study was done to look for the current spectrum of surgical emergencies in a tertiary care hospital. Material and methods: This study was a prospective analysis of patients reported in June 2010 in Accident and Emergency department, Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak. Result: A total of 2349 patients reported, 1501 (63.89%) patients were of trauma, 848 (36.11%) were of non trauma. Out of 1501 trauma patients, most common mode of injury was road side accidents (62.23%) and most of the patients (57.76%) were non referred. Males patients (78.22%) outnumbered female patients (21.78%). Most common injury was soft tissue injury limbs (22.88%) and most of them were managed conservatively. Orthopedics operations were most commonly performed procedure and maximum number of the patients were (44.83%) admitted in ward for definitive treatment.Mortality of trauma patients during the study period was 4.13%.Out of 848 non trauma patients most of the patients were non referred (84.78%). Most common diagnosis were colics (42.92%) and most of them (82.40%) were managed conservatively.Laparotomy (41.22%) was the commonest procedure doneand most of the patients were discharged without admission (71.58%) after successful treatment. Mortality in nontrauma patients was 0.7%. Conclusion: The study showed that major workload of an accident and emergency department deals with cases of trauma and among non trauma colic came out to be the most common cause.
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Anjali Verma, Surender Verma, Pradeep Garg, Rajesh Godara, RK Karwasra, Naveen Verma
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